
tosh at 1200group
Feb 21, 2010, 3:11 PM
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Forking and/or spawning long running processes under ModPerl::Registry
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This worked for me and perhaps somebody else will find this useful because I for sure could not find any simple vanilla starting points for creating forks under mod_perl, but I did find a way to spawn processes and not get zombies (actually I haven't tested this fully, but I'm pretty sure). ##### website.pl ... website stuff ... system('/path/to/my_looooooong.pl', @args); ... more stuff ... ##### my_looooooong.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Proc::Daemon; Proc::Daemon::Init; for my $num (1..10) { sleep 1; } Now that's right, all the above does is sleep for 10 seconds, but at least it will sleep without zombies and won't hang up the browser connection. I hope one day this saves somebody weeks of futzing around. I also hope it works the way I think it works. Tosh -- McIntosh Cooey - Twelve Hundred Group LLC - http://www.1200group.com/
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