On 13 January 2013 10:07, umeabot <buildsystem-dae...@mageia.org> wrote: > Description : > Why should one use a module to get the PID and the PPID of a process where > there are the '$$' variable and the 'getppid()' builtin ? (Not mentioning > the equivalent 'POSIX::getpid()' and 'POSIX::getppid()' functions.) > > In fact, this is useful on Linux, with multithreaded programs. Linux' C > library, using the linux thread model, returns different values of the PID > and the PPID from different threads. (Other thread models such as NPTL > don't have the same behaviour). This module forces perl to call the > underlying C functions 'getpid()' and 'getppid()'.
given that: 1) this module is not maintained (last release in 2006) 2) NPTL is the default since switching to kernel-2.6/glibc-2.4, aka since mdv2007.1, Shouldn't we investigate if apache-mod_perl really needs this? Note that RH's mod_perl now requires it too since last year.
