Hi,

> I want to fork a process or a thread to do some special work, is that
> allowed? Thanks for any suggestions.

This really depends on what "special work" do you want to do. For example,
I'm forking process to copy "large files" in the background in
ngx_slowfs_cache [1], but the child process just copies file and exits right
after it, so there are no synchronization problems, etc. Anything more
complicated probably isn't very good idea, unless there is no other way
around it.

[1] http://labs.frickle.com/nginx_ngx_slowfs_cache/

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora@frickle.com >



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