Re: Checking for live connections

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way of checking for live connections prior to using
> mysql_connect in the C API (asside from mysql_ping)

Try to open a TCP connection to port 3306 of target server. If 
successful - then "connections are live". Close that test 
connection correctly and then do mysql_connect.

Just a first idea.





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Checking for live connections

2004-09-14 Thread Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
Is there a way of checking for live connections prior to using
mysql_connect in the C API (asside from mysql_ping)

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