From 4dc257b23e4bf070f9f3e2e53f02065437f77a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ndparker <>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:59:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added Arc::Starter

---
 selfforum-cgi/shared/Arc/Starter.pm | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 selfforum-cgi/shared/Arc/Starter.pm

diff --git a/selfforum-cgi/shared/Arc/Starter.pm b/selfforum-cgi/shared/Arc/Starter.pm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..905a33a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/selfforum-cgi/shared/Arc/Starter.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package Arc::Starter;
+
+################################################################################
+#                                                                              #
+# File:        shared/Arc/Starter.pm                                           #
+#                                                                              #
+# Authors:     Andre Malo       <nd@o3media.de>, 2001-07-16                    #
+#                                                                              #
+# Description: start severancer and archiver                                   #
+#                                                                              #
+################################################################################
+
+use strict;
+use vars qw(
+  @EXPORT
+  $VERSION
+);
+
+################################################################################
+#
+# Version check
+#
+$VERSION = do { my @r =(q$Revision$ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
+
+################################################################################
+#
+# Export
+#
+use base qw(Exporter);
+@EXPORT = qw(start_severance);
+
+### win32_start () #############################################################
+#
+# win32 starter
+#
+# Params: ~none~
+#
+# Return: ~none~
+#
+sub win32_start ($) {
+  my $sev = shift;
+  my $p;
+  my $x = $^X;
+
+  require Win32::Process; Win32::Process -> import ('NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS', 'DETACHED_PROCESS');
+  require Win32;
+
+  Win32::Process::Create(
+    $p,
+    $x,
+    "perl $sev",
+    0,
+    NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | DETACHED_PROCESS,
+    "."
+  ) or warn 'could not execute severancer: '.Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastError());
+}
+
+### posix_start () #############################################################
+#
+# POSIX starter
+#
+# Params: ~none~
+#
+# Return: ~none~
+#
+sub posix_start ($) {
+  my $sev = shift;
+  my $x   = $^X;
+
+  require POSIX;
+
+  my $pid = fork;
+  unless ($pid) {
+    unless (defined $pid) {
+      warn "Could not fork severance process: $!";
+    }
+    else {
+      unless (POSIX::setsid()) {
+        warn "Could not create new severancer session: $!";
+      } else {
+        exec $x, $sev;
+      }
+      warn "could not execute severancer: $!"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+### start_severance () #########################################################
+#
+# start the severance script as a new process (group)
+#
+# Params: $app - /path/to/fo_sev.pl
+#
+# Return: ~none~
+#
+sub start_severance ($) {
+  my $app = shift;
+  my $OS;
+
+  unless ($OS = $^O) {
+    require Config;
+    $OS = $Config::Config{osname};
+  }
+
+  if ($OS =~ /win32/i) {
+    win32_start ($app);
+  }
+  else {
+    posix_start ($app);
+  }
+
+  return;
+}
+
+# keep 'require' happy
+1;
+
+#
+#
+### end of Arc::Starter ########################################################
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