Hi there,
I'm using the FCGI module (version 0.67) and a lighttpd to create an imageserver. But currently I have the problem that if I shutdown the lighttpd server, the perl processes are still there with an open file descriptor to the socket. There are not a child process anymore and are only killable. Here some code: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use FCGI; my $handling_request = 0; my $exit_requested = 0; my $request = FCGI::Request(); sub sig_handler { $exit_requested = 1; if ( !$handling_request ) { $request->Flush(); $request->Finish(); exit( 0 ); } } $SIG{USR1} = &sig_handler; $SIG{TERM} = &sig_handler; $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE'; # Main function sub do_request { $request->Flush(); $request->Finish(); } while ( $handling_request = ( $request->Accept() >= 0 ) ) { &do_request; $handling_request = 0; last if $exit_requested; } $request->Flush(); $request->Finish(); exit( 0 ); Here is the lighttpd config (only fastcgi section): fastcgi.server = ( "" => (( "max-procs" => 1, "socket" => "/tmp/img.promobil.de.fcgi.socket", "bin-path" => "/home/friedrich/public_html/promobil/trunk/imageserver/imageserver.pl", "check-local" => "disable", "allow-x-send-file" => "enable", )) ) I don't know why the perl processes hung there and do not exit... Here also some output of lsof (from such a process): imageserv 21482 www-data cwd DIR 3,5 4096 17076805 /home/friedrich/public_html/promobil/trunk/imageserver imageserv 21482 www-data rtd DIR 3,1 4096 2 / imageserv 21482 www-data txt REG 3,1 1061700 4637988 /usr/bin/perl imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 51936 4670723 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/FCGI/FCGI.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 111304 4655487 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 123180 4838084 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 16672 3424409 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 7220 3424404 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 320344 3424432 /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 288776 3424669 /usr/lib/libjasper-1.701.so.1.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 78500 3425061 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 1148124 3425051 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.27 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 66200 4345035 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.3 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 965952 3424401 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 85060 3424349 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 32144 3424396 /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 52848 3424411 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 137760 3424926 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.15.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 127488 3424674 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 434840 3424584 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.10 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 343712 3425020 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4.2.1 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 197880 3424800 /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1.0.15 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 3637020 3424364 /usr/lib/libMagick.so.9.0.0 imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 18824 4655442 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 11075 4703010 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/String/CRC32/CRC32.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 270772 4670737 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 11784 4655489 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 20592 6422549 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/IO/IO.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 14133 5341196 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 30392 4655249 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 21568 4653125 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 126854 4702923 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/List/MoreUtils/MoreUtils.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 9553 5832710 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Devel/GlobalDestruction/GlobalDestruction.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 11162 4703017 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Sub/Name/Name.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 23758 4702897 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Class/C3/XS/XS.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 1902160 3145750 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 21868 4358808 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libcrypt-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 1253680 4358806 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 89370 4358823 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 145136 4358805 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 9592 4358801 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 19099 4866090 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Class/MOP/MOP.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 42356 4702926 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/List/Util/Util.so imageserv 21482 www-data mem REG 3,1 88164 4349843 /lib/ld-2.3.6.so imageserv 21482 www-data 0u unix 0xffff8801cdb0d740 69730688 /tmp/img.promobil.de.fcgi.socket-0 imageserv 21482 www-data 1w CHR 1,3 791 /dev/null imageserv 21482 www-data 2u CHR 136,58 60 /dev/pts/58 Does somebody see an error I've made? Greets Christoph