[pws] Threading problem with 0.3 tarball or non-starting CVS checkout...

[George P. <ge...@vi...>]

Hi All,

I have just subscribed to the list. I am looking at Perl web server (PWS) for an embedded system project that we have on the drawing board, including contributing a fair amount of documentation and code to the PWS.

OS: Linux
Version: Fedora Core 1 release
Perl version: v5.8.1 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Port: 2080 (I have apache running which stops me from using port 80)


I have been a problem with the version 0.3 tarball in that perl webserver will run with child process being forked to answer requests. As long as the requsts come in before the child timeouts out and exits, everything is okay. However when the child exits, the main daemon shutdown, leaving nothing to answer the next request on that port.

I then proceed to checkout the latest code from CVS only to discover that the daemon doesn't start. Pws reponds "Starting server" but doesn't get fork the child processes.

At no time did I get any warnings or error messages.

I am puzzled as I have never debugged a forking application.

Thanks in Advance,


George Patterson