Posted by David T. Ashley on 11/20/06 15:44

"petersprc" <petersprc@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1163999132.953698.153670@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> As far as I know, in the event of a disconnect, Apache will send a
> SIGTERM to the child, and then, if needed, wait up to approximately 3
> seconds and send a SIGKILL. ...

Thanks. The info was very helpful.

The hard part for me is that I've searched all over the web and found
various documents that outline the stdin/stdout interface, but process
termination was not discussed anywhere I've found. That seems odd, because
SIGTERM and SIGKILL are part of the interface.

If you can recommend any good books or authoritative references ... I'm just
getting started (never written a compiled 'C' CGI-BIN before ... have just
used scripting languages like PHP, and nearly all of that is handled for
you).

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