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.. So this is a perfect match for a PerlChildInitHandler - isn=B4t it ?

Cheers

Andreas

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Von: Torsten Foertsch [mailto:torsten.foertsch@xxx.xxx]=20
Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 12:00
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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 Gr=E0cia wrote:
> > But there is a problem with Perls getppid() implementation. Modern=20
> > Perls issue the syscall only once and cache the result. Maybe you=20
> > 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=20
> 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=20
that does what Perl is doing after a successful fork in the child. That =
also=20
may help.

Torsten