I believe the sock in this context is actually the port number specified in the connect() call, and not the socket used to communicate. Even while trying to debug, I must be doing something stupid. Here's what I'm doing: 
$dbh = &db_connect;
print "hi there 3\n";
#my $p = $dbh->sock;
#my $h = $dbh->host;
#my $d = $dbh->database;
#print "port: p\nhost: $h\ndb  : $d\n";
print "dbh: $dbh\n";
use Data::Dumper;
Data::Dumper->Dump([$dbh]);
foreach ( keys %$dbh) { print "$_=$dbh{$_}\n"; }
print "got here\n";

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And here's what I get: 
hi there 3
dbh: DBI::db=HASH(0x3de72b0)
got here

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a) Its telling me that $dbh is a hash, but why can't I print out its contents?

b)The 4 lines are commented out, because if I leave them in, the application dies silently.

In reply to Re^2: DBI & setsockopt by fhew
in thread DBI & setsockopt by fhew

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