----- "Matus UHLAR - fantomas" <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we provide our users possibility to upload their own CGI scripts,
> using
> suexec (in a limited environment, for security reasons). 
> 
> I found that a user uploaded CGI that calls flock() function which
> sometimes
> makes the CGI hang for a long time (hours).
> 
> Is there possibility to automatically kill such CGI processes after
> some
> time, so they won't cross eat our resources (file locks, for
> example)?
> 
> Unfortunately this can't be done by usint RlimitCPU because the
> process does
> nothing or nearly nothing.
> 
> Could mod_cgi or suexec kill the process after configured time?

nope.

mod_fcgid on the other hand can, take a look at it's docs:
http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html


> The apache version is 2.2.16 (gentoo linux).
> 
> Thank you
> 
> P.S. I know that the problem may lie outside of this problem, but I'm
> afraid
> that if processes will hang, I will just have to kill them somehow).
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