Is there a way to do a thread timeout? If a thread doesn't respond within so many seconds, then run this function?
Oh great an powerful PERL Oz I have just discovered a serious issue within the core architecture of this beast of a program that I have written using threads... I am using Thread::Queue to throttle resources from the jobs that have to be done at any given time. This program, collects information from a database, maps a drive using OLE calls, and copies the files to the destination drive and it does this part well. The problem is, some of my servers are dial up... I have no issues making modem calls but sometimes I get disconnected during the copy phase which causes my threads to hold up and not release its resource back to the queue for the next job... I am limited on resources for the jobs... Right now, I am simply passing the job off to a thread and detaching it... If for some reason, like being disconnected from the server, the thread hangs out there in lala land and never returns it resource back to the resource queue for the next job, causing a major bottleneck in my program. I am inquiring about a possible solution to monitor either connection status to my destination server, or a thread timeout so that I can catch the resource and put it back in the queue for the next job. Any suggestions would be wonderful and I would owe you money for this one... Dan
