[Zope] what is forking?

[Fritz Mesedilla]

Oh thank you so much!!!
Now that relieves me of some of my worries.

Thank you to Takashi and Andreas!

Fritz Mesedilla
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-----Original Message-----
From: Takashi Linzbichler [mailto:takashi.linzbichler@smartferret.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:30 PM
To: fritz.mesedilla@summitmedia.com.ph
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] what is forking?


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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