On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Victor Danilchenko<vic...@askonline.net> wrote: > I need to be able to fork an Apache process in daemon form, to do > some housekeeping which might potentially take a few seconds. However, when > I do that, I start getting SQL errors (of the "connection lost" type) in the > browser. I do the fairly standard cleanup to daemonize the child process, > but of course it needs to retain the SQL socket open.
You can't fork and keep using a database connection. You have to open a new connection in the forked process. > The Apache2:Subprocess doesn't help me, because I need not to spawn > an external process, but to finish processing in mod_perl context -- just > without bugging the user with it. In that case, just use a cleanup handler instead. - Perrin
