Hello,
our CMS create sometimes long runnig tasks. This Tasks we start with the
following code:
`/usr/bin/perl -e 'use Modul; Modul->function($arg);' > /dev/null &`;
This works. Apache returns the html-page and the long running function
goes into the background. But if we restart Apache all childs and our
long running function was killed :-(
Could i daemonize the long running process to be sure that he wasn't
killed by a apache restart? Maybe with Proc::Daemon.
Is the a good solution or somebody knows a better way to do it?
use Acme::Spork;
my $spork_pid = spork(\&long_running_proc, @args) or die "could not fork
for spork: $!";
Its "Acme" but its hardcore awesome and useful. (could prolly be in
Proc:: with a more "professional" name, but "Spork" is pretty much a fun
name (but fitting no?) which is why its in Acme)
I've never used it in mod_perl but I imagine it should work just fine
including the children :)
It also has daemonize funtion that is a shortcut for Proc::Daemon's Init
if you truly want to daemonize the script at that point, but it doesn't
sound like that is what you want.
HTH :)
