On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:17:22AM +0200, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF EITO wrote: > > > I believe that the parent process, which is supposed to have a 7 > > > second space between its own SIGTERM and SIGKILL, is getting the > > > SIGKILL before it has slept for 3 seconds *and* sent the final > > > SIGKILL to the child CGIs. This has the potential to leave broken > > > child processes behind. > > > > "apachectl stop" never SIGKILLs the parent though, are you using init > > scripts for this really? We had exactly that problem in the > > But the parent httpd process sents SIGKILL to its child processes after a > timeout, correct? And the cgi's are childs of the httpd childs.
Yes, but Paul was writing about the *parent* getting SIGKILLed before it gets a chance to itself SIGKILL any errant CGI scripts. That won't happen with apachectl; but init scripts are indeed written to do a "SIGTERM, wait, SIGKILL" on the parent. joe
