Ryan Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:02 am, Allan Edwards wrote:
> > This might also be a problem on unix but I haven't tested.
> > When cgi's are launched a window sometimes pops up, same for
> > mod_include "exec cgi". Is there a reason we are not
> > launching the cgi as a detached process?
>
> You definately do not want to detach on Unix, because if you do, the
> CGI script will end up forking three times.
yep... beyond that is the issue that detached on Win32 and detached on
Unix really mean different things...
what if we had a long-running-daemon attribute and a non-interactive
attribute (yeah, please come up with better names):
long-running-daemon non-interactive
Win32 child doesn't get window child doesn't get window
Unix all the forks, setsid, whatever no-op
(just a rough sketch, but you get the picture)
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