Re: apache

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:35, Paul Bryan wrote:
> That's exactly right. Whenever a request comes in on port 80, inetd starts
> up an apache process to handle it. Once the request is completed, inetd
> kills the apache process.

inetd does not kill the Apache process, it reaps (via wait()) the Apache 
process when Apache dies of it's own accord.

If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily 
allow it to do so.

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