Global $SIG{CHLD} safe in mod_perl 1.28 with Apache 1.3?

2006-06-30 Thread Matthew Smith
If I set a global SIG{CHLD} = IGNORE is there any possiblity of it propigating to the ultimate parent, and thus to all the child processes? I'm worried that if I use the global (even though that's what Stas Bekmen does in his mod_perl book example) it could possibly cause problems with the way apa

use of STDERR in forked children

2006-06-28 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi, I'm working on a mechanism to fork a a long running child process. I've followed the standard mod_perl forking wisdom in http://modperlbook.org/html/ch10_02.html. My issue is that warn() doesn't work in the child process, though printing directly to STDERR does. Also, I want STDERR to go to