Sucess!
I ended up not going down the GenerateConsoleEvent but your suggestion
inspired me to do some digging. I read on the win32 api help a while
that GenerateConsoleEvent will basically just call the registered the
even handler, so I searched through the source code to see if I could
find it, and yup found it. Then followed a bit of code and realised
something, apache creates events to signal different things.
Here is a little helper function I wrote so other people can benefit
from what I have found (signal is "shutdown" or "restart")
bool SendApacheSignal(DWORD pid, char *signal)
{
char buff[128];
HANDLE event = NULL;
if (sprintf(buff, "ap%d_%s", pid, signal))
{
event = ::OpenEvent(EVENT_MODIFY_STATE, false, buff);
}
return event && ::SetEvent(event);
}
This is basically what httpd -k stop does on Win 9x but not XP
Hope some of you find that useful and thanks for the inspiration Eric,
Matt
Matthew Gregory wrote:
Thanks for this, I had tried the GenerateConsoleEvent api before without
success, although reading that page the author is creating a remote
thread to call the api from within the Apache process rather than
externally so I'll play around with that.
Thanks,
Matt
Eric Covener wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Matthew Gregory
<matthew+apa...@nogsnet.com> wrote:
My question is this: how can I gracefully close apache? The docs say
to use
"httpd -k stop" but on our target platforms this always tries to stop
the
service but we are actually running as a console. There is mention of
using
kill on unix but I cannot find a suitable windows equivilant.
I've used e a little windows utility, SendSignal.exe, to send
cntrl-break to a similar a program in some automation.
http://www.latenighthacking.com/projects/2003/sendSignal/
Unfortunately it didn't look like any of the sysinsternals tools would
do it, but I may have just missed it.
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