"petersprc" <petersprc@gmail.com> wrote:

>As far as I know, in the event of a disconnect, Apache will send a
>SIGTERM to the child, and then, if needed, wait up to approximately 3
>seconds and send a SIGKILL. Your CGI could handle the SIGTERM and do
>any required cleanup. It could also leave behind a long-running process
>using the "at now" command.

Is that promised anywhere? In my experience, the only side effect of the
disconnect is that the sockets feeding stdin and stdout get disconnected.
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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
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