apache 1.3.28 does not appear to kill off children cgis that get sigpipe
this probably only happens if you are using suexec.

backported from apache1.3.27 by nick at cpanel.net
There is a better fix but this works for now.
--- apache_1.3.28/src/main/alloc.c.orig	Sun Jul 20 13:34:23 2003
+++ apache_1.3.28/src/main/alloc.c	Sun Jul 20 13:34:37 2003
@@ -2859,49 +2859,18 @@
 	if ((p->kill_how == kill_after_timeout)
 	    || (p->kill_how == kill_only_once)) {
 	    /* Subprocess may be dead already.  Only need the timeout if not. */
-	    if (ap_os_kill(p->pid, SIGTERM) == -1) {
-                p->kill_how = kill_never;
-            }
-            else {
+	    if (ap_os_kill(p->pid, SIGTERM) != -1)
 		need_timeout = 1;
-            }
 	}
 	else if (p->kill_how == kill_always) {
 	    kill(p->pid, SIGKILL);
 	}
     }
 
-    /* Sleep only if we have to. The sleep algorithm grows
-     * by a factor of two on each iteration. TIMEOUT_INTERVAL
-     * is equal to TIMEOUT_USECS / 64.
-     */
-    if (need_timeout) {
-        timeout_interval = TIMEOUT_INTERVAL;
-        tv.tv_sec = 0;
-        tv.tv_usec = timeout_interval;
-        ap_select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
+    /* Sleep only if we have to... */
 
-        do {
-            need_timeout = 0;
-            for (p = procs; p; p = p->next) {
-                if (p->kill_how == kill_after_timeout) {
-                    if (waitpid(p->pid, (int *) 0, WNOHANG | WUNTRACED) > 0)
-                        p->kill_how = kill_never;
-                    else
-                        need_timeout = 1;
-                }
-            }
-            if (need_timeout) {
-                if (timeout_interval >= TIMEOUT_USECS) {
-                    break;
-                }
-                tv.tv_sec = timeout_interval / 1000000;
-                tv.tv_usec = timeout_interval % 1000000;
-                ap_select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
-                timeout_interval *= 2;
-            }
-        } while (need_timeout);
-    }
+    if (need_timeout)
+	sleep(3);
 
     /* OK, the scripts we just timed out for have had a chance to clean up
      * --- now, just get rid of them, and also clean up the system accounting