shutting down apache from a 'C' program

[<ramakrishnaprasad.annasamudram@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

We are trying to shutdown apache server through a 'C' program.

We tried calling system("httpd -k stop").

Also we tried to spawn a child process and replace using exec with the "<server-root>/bin/httpd","-k","stop").

But none of them worked.I am unable to understand the dynamics of apache processes are being run so that i can shut down the apache server gracefully through the program.i tried using ap_graceful_stop_signalled().But it also didn't work in our case.Any help please!Any one has done this before and succeeded too?Thankyou in advance

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