Index: server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c
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--- server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c	(revision 1827362)
+++ server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c	(working copy)
@@ -546,10 +546,13 @@ static void child_main(int child_num_arg, int chil
                 status = apr_pollset_poll(pollset, apr_time_from_sec(10),
                                           &numdesc, &pdesc);
                 if (status != APR_SUCCESS) {
-                    if (APR_STATUS_IS_TIMEUP(status) ||
-                        APR_STATUS_IS_EINTR(status)) {
+                    if (APR_STATUS_IS_EINTR(status)) {
                         continue;
                     }
+                    if (APR_STATUS_IS_TIMEUP(status)) {
+                        SAFE_ACCEPT(accept_mutex_off());
+                        goto check_pod;
+                    }
                     /* Single Unix documents select as returning errnos
                      * EBADF, EINTR, and EINVAL... and in none of those
                      * cases does it make sense to continue.  In fact
@@ -616,6 +619,7 @@ static void child_main(int child_num_arg, int chil
             ap_lingering_close(current_conn);
         }
 
+    check_pod:
         /* Check the pod and the generation number after processing a
          * connection so that we'll go away if a graceful restart occurred
          * while we were processing the connection or we are the lucky