setup a signal handler in each child thread and make it return when you send a
signal, or, if the child thread
knows when it's done you can just 'return' and it will become joinable.
Also as in my previous email remember that the connection to VI will timeout
after 30 minutes.
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:14:21 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: fork or thread?
> CC: [email protected]
>
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> On 19/1/2010 3:11 ??, Oeschey, Lars (I/ET-83, extern) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script within the VMware vSphere Perl SDK. The
> > script will backup some VMs where those have it defined in Vsphere.
> > Currently I have the problem, that I get a timeout on my authenticated
> > connect, and can't reconnect (I don't know why, and the VMWare forums
> > aren't helpful there). So I thought about authenticating, and then
> > forking or creating a thread that does something in the VSphere to keep
> > the authentication alive. My problem here is that I don't know how to
> > end the forked/threaded process, aber all backups in the parent process
> > are done. This is the first time I have to do forking/threading, I read
> > about both but still am unsure about how to communicate to the child
> > that it should exit it's infinite loop.
> > Is there any best practice or something I should read about and don't
> > know?
> >
> > Lars
> > _______________________________________________
>
> read the code here
> http://github.com/book/HTTP-Proxy/blob/master/lib/HTTP/Proxy/Engine/Legacy.pm
>
> It will enlighten you !
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