It's not a true daemon...Mike's comment on using a wait or waitpid is valid. If you're interested, read up on daemon processes in APUE (chap. 13) from Stevens. Your process is still associated with a terminal and is not the process group leader and is not the session leader.
I highly recommend it if you're going to write daemon processes. Best of luck, R -----Original Message----- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 02:51 PM To: Michael T. Babcock Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SOLVED! (was: Re: What is wrong with this query?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: Re: SOLVED! (was: Re: What is wrong with this query?) > >It seems that the parent exit-ing while the > >child is doing stuff, makes the child lose its query to MySQL (always > >more or less at the same point). And this is really strange; for the parent > >has nothing to do with MySQL. It is the child who makes the > >connection and does all queries. So, having the parent linger a bit > >should have no affect on the child. Yet it does. > > > > > > I'm not a PERL god, but from C experience, try looking up "wait" and > "wait" on your child instead of just exiting. I do not understand what you mean. This is not a parent process that uses a "waitpid" to reap its died-off children, but a daemon process where the parent spawns a stand-alone child, fully dissociated from the parent by closing STDIN, STDOUT, and setting its own session id, where the parent can exit as soon as $pid is defined. At least, that is how I always understood the process. But in light of recent events, maybe not... - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
