Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 868 invoked by uid 6000); 3 Jan 1998 22:02:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 861 invoked from network); 3 Jan 1998 22:02:04 -0000 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (204.62.130.91) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 3 Jan 1998 22:02:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 11623 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jan 1998 22:08:30 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:08:30 -0800 (PST) From: Dean Gaudet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: latest redhat rpm of apache In-Reply-To: <34AEB382.8D3AEB82@algroup.co.uk> Message-ID: X-Comment: Visit http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. Organization: Transmeta Corp. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Ben Laurie wrote: > Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > The parent doesn't exit until after it's spent a whack of time in > > reclaim_child_processes() brutally killing off all the children. So all > > the children have released their locks and died, then the parent releases > > its lock and dies. Then waitlock is able to acquire an exclusive lock. > > Hold on. Am I losing it completely? I though the parent didn't exit at > all? Maybe we're talking about separate issues. I'm dealing with "how do you kill off httpd and be sure it actually completely exited?". Dean