.. So this is a perfect match for a PerlChildInitHandler - isnīt it ? Cheers
Andreas -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Torsten Foertsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 12:00 An: modperl@perl.apache.org Betreff: Re: Apache::SizeLimit ( mp1 and mp2 )-> I think there is a logical error in the code ... On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:48, Marc Grācia wrote: > > But there is a problem with Perls getppid() implementation. Modern > > Perls issue the syscall only once and cache the result. Maybe you > > somehow hit that. Normally the cache is invalidated when Perl forks, > > but Apache does its own fork. Thus maybe the cache remains. > > In Apache::GTopLimit i had to modify the source to use Linux::Pid > package to get the pid instead of the default function. If not allways > returned the parent pid. After all this, everything worked fine... > It seems to me the same problem. I've just uploaded Perl::AfterFork to CPAN. The module implements a function that does what Perl is doing after a successful fork in the child. That also may help. Torsten
