On Jul 1, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Cees Hek wrote:
On 7/1/05, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# If something goes wrong, make sure to stop the HTTP server.
sub cleanup { kill(9,$pid) }
$SIG{__DIE__}=\&cleanup;
Would it be better to put this in an END block? I'm not sure if this
signal gets thrown at a normal exit. I use END blocks in test scripts
for stuff like this and they work well.
Also, is a kill 9 really necesary? It seems a little overkill (pun
intended :D). kill 9 should only be done as a last resort if the
process will not die on it's own.
Generally yes I do stay away from a 9. Weapon of last resort. I
started using the 9 when I writing the CGI tests for
HTTP::Server::Simple. As with the developers before me there were
rare occasions when it was required, and rather than accidently
leaving a process running from a test, it was safer to brute force it
to die and be sure. I made this decision for my tests. YMMV.
-Shawn
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Shawn Sorichetti
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