Hello,

I have written a nice little service that is supposed run all the time as a background process handling requests from other programs, converting them to SOAP requests and dispatching them to a SOAP server via https. I am using the excellent SOAP::Lite toolkit and have hit a problem I don't really understand. When SOAP::Lite encounters a fatal problem it often calls die. Coming from the world of C and C++ I expect library functions I call to return a value or throw an exception, not to abort the entire program. This is especially true in my case as I can't have SOAP problems dropping my service. Currently I have hacked around it by dispatching my requests in forked processes and then watching for a SIG CHILD to let me know the process exited, but this is cludgy and memory intensive. Is there a way to catch the die signal and continue with the program?


Thank you,
Blake Woolbright

In reply to Keeping perl alive after a module calls die. by Anonymous Monk

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