On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Kees Vonk 7249 24549 wrote:
> > Below is a solution to this problem:
> >
> > * fork the long running process from mod_perl
> > * and be able to restart the server
> > o without killing this process
> > o without this process keeping the socket busy
> > and thus preventing the server restart
> >
[snip]
> > defined (my $kid = fork) or die "Cannot fork: $!\n";
> > if ($kid) {
> > print "Parent $$ has finished, kid's PID: $kid\n";
> > } else {
> > $r->cleanup_after_fork();
> > chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
[snip]
> Thank you very much, that works great and it looks much neater than what
> I had before.
thanks goes to doug for cleanup_after_fork :) BTW, in the official release
it'll be called cleanup_for_exec(), so you better use this one from the
beginning.
> BTW. what is the function of the chdir '/', is that needed or can I
> leave that out?
it's useful in case you decide to umount the partition later, see perlipc
manpage. You can leave it out of course.
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