[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-15, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley skrev den 2015-06-15 13:06:
>> On 2015-06-15, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, I've never written a web server, yet.  If I was to do so, I'd
>>> seriously look at detached processes rather than sub-processes.  Why?
>>> Because once you assign the worker process a task, perhaps you'd want it
>>> to complete, regardless of whatever the web server does.
>>>
>>
>> What happens if you need to shutdown/restart the web server and need
>> to _guarantee_ that all related processes have terminated as part of
>> of the shutdown process ?
>>
>
> You make sure that the shutdon/restart process/tool guarantees that.
> I realy don't see the problem (or maybe I don't understand the question).
>

If you have detached processes, you need to guarantee that each and
every one has terminated (they may be stuck and not responding to
commands from the web server process). This also means you need some
way of determining, from a list of all processes, which ones need
to be killed.

If you have subprocesses which die when the parent process dies then
you don't have that problem.

Simon.

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