On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:32:28 +0530 , Agarwal, Ramakant wrote:
> I want that if someone kills the process while the script is in
>execution then it should log off from the database and then should exit.
>Does the log off from the db happen automatically whenever a process is
>killed or we do need to explicitly handle this?
I suspect the latter. You can do that by doing
END {
$dbh->disconnect if $dbh;
}
where $dbh is the DBI database handle. A code block like this will
always be executed at the end of the program run, even if it happens by
a gentle signal, the equivalent of ctrl-C.
--
Bart.
