On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:28:11 +0000, Charles Jardine <c...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> If this reproduces the problem, you have something nothing to do > >> with databases to investigate. If it doesn't reproduce the problem, > >> it may be that Oracle is messing with the SIGCHLD signal. > >> > >> Are you connecting directly to the database using the bequeather? > > > > I've never heard of anything called a "bequeather" :) > > If you call $ORACLE_HOME/bin/adapters, the list will include 'BEQ'. > This is the bequeather, which is the adapter used to connect to > a local database when ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are specified > and TWO_TASK is not. The BEQ adapter is inconsistent with the > with perl built-ins which use fork or popen unless you put > 'bequeath_detach = yes' in sqlnet.ora. It is a pity that this > sqlnet.ora option is not the default. All tests then pass -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
