Re: Can't locate object method "cleanup_for_exec" via package "Apache"

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Mike P. Mikhailov wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
>    I'm understood that fork'ing from mod_perl is not very good idea,
>    but we have no choice. Because it is up to user to decide to launch
>    job which syncronize data in the two database sources. And this job
>    may take a long time.
> 
>    I'm has no expirience before in using fork call, so I'm reading
>    chapter '10.4.3 Forking and Executing Subprocesses from mod_perl'
>    of mod_perl Guide careful.
> 
>    I'm understood that I must cleanup soket in child process.
>    In '10.4.3.2 Freeing the Parent Process' written [c&p]: 'Apache::SubProcess
>    comes to help and provides a method cleanup_for_exec() which takes
>    care of closing this file descriptor.' p 365. But I'm does not see
>    such sub in the Apache::Subprocess. And my code generates run time error
>    
>         Can't locate object method "cleanup_for_exec" via package "Apache"
> 
>    My RH linux with kernel 2.2.14-5.0, Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25
>    mod_perl Guide: Version 1.30 Sep, 2 2001. Apache::SubProcess v0.02.
>    
>    Am I miss something ?


Nope, Doug hasn't released an updated Apache::Subprocess yet. Search the 
mailing list archive (see http://perl.apache.org/) for 
'cleanup_for_exec' and you will get the patch that I've posted for the 
current version. Sorry for causing confusion.



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