I'm currently doing something similar with fork in a mod_perl app for doing some customer e-mailing which takes a too long to keep in foreground.
Considering writing a little script to call via system() that will fork() and perform the tasks because they can be done asynchronously. Thought I would float out the idea and see what you thought about that. ______________________ Jordan Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Johnson [mailto:solution@;gina.net] Sent: October 30, 2002 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't make a clean break (fork) Back again with a similar question. I put in place some code a few months ago based on a reply from a member. It is allowing me to run the external process correctly, but in doing deployment of the code and watching the system memory usage it appears that the process is still attached to the mod_perl process. Here is a snippet of code: $SIG{'CHLD'} = 'IGNORE'; defined (my $kid = fork) or $seo->error_to_log( "Cannot fork: $!" ); if ($kid) { $seo->error_to_log( "Parent has finished, kid's PID: $kid" ); } else { close($req_rec->connection->fileno); # added in an attempt to make the process completely seperate $req_rec->cleanup_for_exec(); # untie the socket # chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!"; close STDIN; close STDOUT; close STDERR; $seo->_debug(0); exec( $seo->external_report_app(), $number ) or $seo->error_to_log("Cannot execute exec: $!" , 1 ); CORE::exit(0); } I am running this with the latest version of mod_perl and Apache and the dev3 of 2.0b9 with 5.8 Perl on the development server and 5.6.1 and 2.0b8 on a production machine, both running Linux. My detached process starts approx. 16 additional forked processes so it is important for me to complete detach myself from the apache process. Aaron Johnson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]