On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Kees Vonk 7249 24549 wrote:
> On our intranet server I have a page that allows the user to
> start a long running process. In order not to hang a httpd
> child I fork off the process and detach it from the calling
> process. This works fine most of the time.
>
> However in the unusual situation where apache needs to be
> restarted while the long running process is still running I
> can not restart apache. It complains that: 'Address already
> in use: make_sock: could not bind to address', which as far
> as I can make out is because the long running process has
> inherited the open sockets from the apache child.
>
> Has anyone got an idea how to get around this? Can I get to
> the inherited socket connection and close it when I have
> detached from the calling process?
How about
close STDOUT;
close STDIN;
close STDERR;
in your child code?
check this out:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocess
it's explained there.
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