How to recognize server shutdown?

[Dave Rolsky]

Is there any way to distinguish between a child being shutdown (say
maxrequests has been exceeded) versus all of Apache going down (kill
signal sent to the original process or something).

The reason I ask is that while I can do:

BEGIN
{
     # make a file
}

I can't do:

END
{
     # delete a file
}

and get good results.


I suspect the answer to this is no but I'm curious as to whether anybody's
come up with a way to detect a 'real' shutdown.


-dave

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