Hi, On our development system (SunOS 5.7) my program would 'hang' on occasion immediately after a call to dbh->connect. This would be after a longish sequence of connects & disconnects to initialize some data files. By 'hang' I mean it never returned. A debug statement immediately after dbh->connect() would not print. And it always hung in the same place after completing just so many connects & disconnects.
I have to connect & disconnect in my program because we are not using mod_perl. I was able to 'correct' the problem by adding sleep(3) immediately prior to the call to dbh->connect. Anyone know why this problem occurs and why the sleep() fixes it? P.S. Since the initialization now takes a long time because of the sleeps I'm thinking of running it in the background with Proc::Background. Pete Peter Levine PG&E Utility PoR Transition - Newco 345 Market, 23rd floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: 415-288-5716 Fax: 415-288-5799
