Read the docs, e.g., $dbh->{InactiveDestroy}
Tim.
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:31:47PM +0100, tvilliers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a mother process which needs to fork off a child at every x
> milestone. The child performs a small function (ie, write to a log) and
> then dies. The general idea is that the mother is unaffected by any
> problems the child may encounter (ie, a closed socket, a full disk, eg).
> The child forking process is an "option" in the mother process.
>
> Now, the mother has an open database handle, which from my understanding
> gets transferred to the child at fork. I want the handle to stay with the
> mother. The child's handle can die -- it's not needed for the function.
>
> I tested killing the child's handle (with $dbh->disconnect) with the
> "generic" DBD::SQLite, and it seems all right, but with DBD::Informix, the
> mother pocess just hangs or the children to not exit. Is this simply
> related to Informix (from this earlier post by Jonathan Leffler)?
>
> ==start snip==
> And, as a specific f'r'instance, DBD::Informix will not work reliably if
> you try that -- the connection is associated with a specific PID and the
> children have the wrong PID (process ID).
> ===end snip==
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tielman de Villiers
>
