ed phillips wrote:
>
> I hope it is clear that you don't want fork the whole server!
>
> Mod_cgi goes to great pains to effectively fork a subprocess, and
> was the major impetus I believe for the development of
> the C subprocess API. It (the source code for
> mod_cgi) is a great place to learn some of the
> subtleties as the Eagle book points out. As the Eagle book
> says, Apache is a complex beast. Mod_perl gives
> you the power to use the beast to your best advantage.
Yeah, but I don't speak C. Just Perl. And it looks like the way to do it
in Perl is to call system() and then detach the called script. I was
trying to keep this all nice and tidy in modules, but I don't know if
it'll be possible.
> Now you are faced with a trade off. Is it more expensive to
> detach a subprocess, or use the child cleanup phase to do
> some extra processing? I'd have to know more specifics to answer
> that with any modicum of confidence.
I think I can probably evaluate that with a few tests.
Thanks!
David
