Re: exec and detach a subprocess

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Igor Shevchenko wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 18:51, you wrote:
> 
>>please check one more thing where is your cwd in the spawned script, it
>>should be '/'. in mp1 one had to manually chdir '/' in the script, but I
>>believe the Apache C API called from spawn_proc_prog does it for you. Is
>>that right?
> 
> 
> Checked, it was not doing chdir.

so it's a good idea to do that to avoid potential mount(1) problems.

>> > CORE::exit(0);
>>
>>and you don't need this either, especiall if you call exec()
> 
> 
> Right, it was there to avoid any perl warnings for "exec-not-followed-by-{die 
> || warn || exit}". From "man perlfunc":

right. but it is a better solution to:

   exec or die '...';

since you really want to verify that exec didn't fail.

In anycase, the docs are updated:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache/SubProcess.html#C_spawn_proc_prog_

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