I’ve been searching and using mailing lists to try to find the best way to access, in multi-threaded mode, a SQL Server Database running on Windows 2000 from Linux perl scripts. I’m hearing that there seems to be inherent instability when running threads or “forks”, with the below note summarizing the issue (from someone on a mail group). Is there any way to have a stable environment doing what I’m trying to do?
Yes, Dave, I used 5.8 AS binaries with built-in ithreads. i believe your proxy hang is one symptom of thread unsafety. look at Net::Daemon when --childs=5. Jochen "forks" five children, but forks are threads on windows, so we have five threads listening simultaneously on the same port on the same select statement; then one of them starts heading toward the accept(), but its only a thread, so another thread starts and beats it to the accept(), so now some threads are waiting on select, others on accept, yada yada... ??? hanging, crashing, Storable croaks, are but some of the colorful symptoms. :-) Thanks, David Wesner President DataSwitch Information Services, Inc. Phone: (574) 546-2084 Fax: (574) 546-3105 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.dataswitch.com
