Are there any counterindications to fork under mod_perl2? Should one use another way to run background process under mod_perl2?
Are there any counterindications to fork under mod_perl2? Should one use another way to
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Are there any counterindications to fork under mod_perl2? Should one use another way to run background process under mod_perl2?
I usually use a cleanup handler to run anything that needs to happen after the HTTP request is complete:
If you really need to do a fork, you shouldn’t do it the regular way, because your forked process will interfere with various resources that Apache needs, like file descriptors and sockets, and it’s very hard to handle all this correctly. Instead, try out Apache2::SubProcess.