On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an
: CGI executed by apache?
:
: I want apache to be able to run the following...
:
: void main(void)
: {
: while (1) {
: fork()
: }
: }
:
: And after too much time of CPU usage and/or child processes, kill
: 'em all. :)
:
: Any help available?
:
: ps: /etc/limits with user www-data doesn't work.
If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch
the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do
the same thing in C :)
For further ideas I'd have to grab my APUE by Stevens (an excellent
book!)
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