mod_cgi/3414: Impossible to spawn a child process in the background from a CGI

[Graham Leggett <gr...@vwv.com>]

>Number:         3414
>Category:       mod_cgi
>Synopsis:       Impossible to spawn a child process in the background from a CGI
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 18 00:40:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     graham@vwv.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        v1.3.3
>Environment:
Solaris v2.5.1
>Description:
While trying to trigger a subprocess that takes two hours to complete from a 
CGI program in C, it was discovered that as soon as the parent CGI process
exits having forked the subprocess as a child, Apache kills the child, and
thus the two hour subprocess.

This seems to be done to prevent runaway CGIs, however there does not seem
to be a configurable workaround for this should this functionality be needed.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Provide a configurable workaround on a per script or per directory basis
>Audit-Trail:
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