On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Mark Montague <m...@catseye.org> wrote: > On January 26, 2012 9:07 , =?UTF-8?Q?K=C4=81rlis_Repsons?= > <karlis.reps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> as this seemed the only place to ask my question, here it goes: >> is it ever possible that Apache (as we currently know it) makes a fork >> of a child >> process, which has already processed some requests? > > > Yes. When the child receives a request for a CGI script, it forks itself > and the new child (child of the original child) then executes the external > CGI program. When the external CGI program exists, the new child ends. >
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