ID: 38915 Comment by: anomie at users dot sf dot net Reported By: dimmoborgir at gmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: UNIX PHP Version: 5.2.2, 4.4.7 New Comment:
It seems that it could easily be fixed by having mod_php use the Apache-provided functions which are intended to solve exactly this problem, but the PHP developers seem to have decided to ignore this bug instead. Rather than a cron script, use a trampoline program like the one posted by jeroen at unfix dot org; we have something similar here, although ours doesn't impose an arbitrary run time limit. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-08-20 13:28:45] peterspoon at abv dot bg SO, can this problem be fixed within PHP/Apache or it cannot? Do you think using funny scripts started by cron is a solution? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-05-27 15:12:09] jeroen at unfix dot org My solution to this very annoying issue (especially when Apache is reloaded and the from PHP spawned app is still running and your webserver thus simply dies off as the apache processes are gone, but the spawned app keeps port 80 etc open for you, thus making Apache never start again... http://unfix.org/~jeroen/archive/closedexec.c Compile: cc -o /usr/bin/closedexec closedexec.c Just call it like: system("/usr/bin/closedexec /path/to/exe arg arg arg") or whatever call you where using in PHP. It first closes all sockets !1|!2 (stdout/stderr), setsid()'s, forks, and then execv's the args given, doing a waitpid() in the other thread and killing the process when it runs longer than 5 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-04-30 00:06:18] support at ppnhosting dot com 5.2.3 also experiencing this 'bug' to the point of having to manually kill Exim to just Apache restarted.. the mail() function is suffering from the same problem. It is very annoying to see Apache failing to restart, because the MTA (exim via sendmail in our case) is already listening on port *:80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-03-07 10:45:53] martin at activevb dot de Will this ever be fixed... or shall we better rewrite our 30000 lines of PHP code in Perl? :-| Is it possible to use apr_proc_create() and apr_pool_cleanup_for_exec() directly from PHP source code without patching PHP? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-19 03:59:36] anomie at users dot sf dot net On 29 Jan 6:20pm UTC, adrian dot rollett at unt dot edu wrote: > > For those of you that found this page while looking for info on why > exim is blocking port 80 after inheriting apache's file descriptors, > I believe I found the reason for this. It seems that exim will only > work with a maximum of 1000 file descriptors, (or 256 on older > systems) after which point it will hang, consuming all available cpu > cycles, and preventing apache from restarting. You should submit more detailed information on this to Exim's bug tracking system so it has a chance of being fixed. As far as this ridiculous bug, I've been working around it by using a small program that closes all FDs above 2 (either via the F_CLOSEM fcntl, reading /proc/self/fd, or just blindly calling close for every possible fd) and then execs the real program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/38915 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38915&edit=1
