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From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@slive.ca>
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Subject: RE: mod_cgi kills CGI subprocesses after 3 seconds
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:59:56 -0500
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> From: dan kelley [mailto:dkelley@otec.com]

> i'm having some difficulty with CGI subprocess being killed by apache
> shortly after they close stdout.  we have some CGI programs that continue
> to do background processing after they've finished returing data to the
> client, so it would be beneficial to us to be able to change this
> behavior.

I'm not an expert in this area, but if you read the CGI FAQs, they will tell
you that the correct way to do long-lived processing from a CGI is to fork a
subprocess from your cgi script and make sure that the subprocesses closes
stdin, stdout, and stderr.

Joshua.


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