[Catalyst] How to stop Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE?

[Andy Grundman]

On May 24, 2007, at 1:01 AM, Jon Schutz wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:35 -0400, Andy Grundman wrote:
>> On May 24, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Jon Schutz wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE in a test harness; when the
>>> tests
>>> complete, I would like to gracefully terminate all child processes
>>> that
>>> C::E::HTTP::POE starts.
>>>
>>> My code forks and starts C::E::HTTP::POE, then later my cleanup code
>>> kills the forked child, but extra processes (grandchildren)  
>>> created by
>>> C::E::HTTP::POE get left behind.
>>
>> Are you using preforking?  When you kill the parent it should take
>> out all the children, maybe there is a bug.
>>
>
> No, I hadn't set CATALYST_POE_MAX_PROC as I'm happy with forking on-
> demand in this app.  However, I just tried it now, and it made no
> difference.

The POE engine does not fork at all unless you have set this  
variable, so I'm confused how you are getting child processes without  
it?  There is no fork-on-demand in the POE engine, that's only a  
feature of the default HTTP engine.