Re: Redirector problem

Jens-Peter wrote:

> Do you know anything about, how Squid terminated the redirectors? We
> start 10 redirectors at a time, and after some time (days/week) we can
> see 20 redirectors running. 10 of them is using approx 10% CPU each. We
> have an idea, that the redirector should have been shut down, but does
> not handle the right signal. The "zombie" redirector is just looping,
> trying to read from the stdin.

Squid terminates the helpers by closing the channel used to write things
to the helper (i.e. the helpers stdin).

Ah, reading your program I see that you do not handle this at all. The
loop should read

   while(fgets(....) != NULL) {
     process_data...
     print_result...
   }

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker