BTW, here's a patch you may want to try. It's just a wild guess though...
Dean
Index: main/http_main.c
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RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-1.3/src/main/http_main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.430
diff -u -r1.430 http_main.c
--- http_main.c 1999/04/20 19:15:39 1.430
+++ http_main.c 1999/04/21 00:07:43
@@ -3601,6 +3601,7 @@
#endif
#endif
signal(SIGALRM, alrm_handler);
+ signal(SIGUSR2, alrm_handler);
#ifdef OS2
/* Stop Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break signals going to child processes */
@@ -4105,7 +4106,7 @@
else if (ps->last_rtime + ss->timeout_len < now) {
/* no progress, and the timeout length has been exceeded */
ss->timeout_len = 0;
- kill(ps->pid, SIGALRM);
+ kill(ps->pid, SIGUSR2);
}
}
#endif
