Hi,

While writing an app that regularly checks an oracle database for new
entries I run into problems when the database server suddenly goes
offline (the network connection can't be trusted).

The call right after such a connection loss just hangs the application.

Here is a little example to illustrate ...

<?

ob_implicit_flush();

$cnn = OCILogon( 'scot', 'tiger' );

function valid_cnn( &$cnn ) {
  return ( trim( OCIServerVersion($cnn) ) != '' );
}

while( true ) {
  print valid_cnn( $cnn ) ? "OK\n" : "DOWN\n";
  sleep(1);
}

?>

Running it results in a nice collection of "OK"'s and a hangup when I
disconnect the network. Plugging the network back in resumes the series
of "OK"'s after a while ... But the desired behaviour ( "DOWN" ) won't
appear.

Did anyone of you encountered a similar situation ? How did you solve
this ? ... Any ideas are good, since I'm a bit stuck and any lead might
help to a probably very simple solution (that I just can see rigth now)

Thanks in advance,

Christophe VG


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