Ryan Bloom wrote:
> On Friday 23 November 2001 12:25 am, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
>>I'm porting Apache::SubProcess Perl/XS module to mod_perl 2.0 and after
>>checking the existing APR's API I have found that the functionality
>>existing in ap_spawn_child from 1.3.x has gone. Now you can only run a
>>program/script from the spawned process.
>>
>>Any reason for removing this support? I'm probably not aware of some
>>hidden portablity issues, but by comparing ap_spawn_child from 1.3.x
>>with apr_proc_create() from APR isn't the change is as simple as
>>replacing execve() call with func() call after copying apr_proc_create()
>>into some different function (of course the args should be different)?
>>
>
> Windows doesn't support creating a new process without running a new
> program. I have been looking at creating fork() on Windows, but it is
> incredibly non-trivial.
so how is this solved in 1.3.x? Or is it not used for portable modules?
I see (grep) that at least mod_rewrite and http_log use it in core.
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