[Zope] what is forking?

[Takashi Linzbichler]

Hi, Fritz !

Fritz Mesedilla wrote:
> 
> I configured the STUPID_LOG_FILE and got these in the logs:
> 2001-09-18T13:28:26 INFO(0) zdaemon zdaemon: Tue Sep 18 21:28:26 2001:
> Houston, we have forked
> ------
> 2001-09-18T13:28:26 INFO(0) zdaemon zdaemon: Tue Sep 18 21:28:26 2001: Hi, I
> just forked off a kid: 5155
> ------
> 2001-09-18T13:28:26 INFO(0) zdaemon zdaemon: Tue Sep 18 21:28:26 2001:
> Houston, we have forked
> 
> Is this an error?

Nope. Forking means nothing but starting a new process within another.
Especially with server- (= deamon-) processes, as in this case, this is
commonly used to start child processes hat e.g. have different user-ids.
For example the first Apache process starts with uid root (this has to
be that way because port 80 is a protected port accessible only  by
root) an then forks several children with non-root uids ...

Hm. Very simplified, but hopefully enough to make you feel better :-)

	ta

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