Re^6: how to timeout an operation under mod

But isn't the problem in the C client libraries that are retrying on EINTR? I don't see a lot that DBI could do about it.

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Re^7: how to timeout an operation under mod_perl (EINTR) by tye (Sage) on Sep 08, 2008 at 06:37 UTC
Retrying on EINTR? How annoying! What is the motivation for that? A DBI call seems like the perfect place one would want to interrupt something with a signal (queries can take surprisingly long to run and long-running queries can cause problems for other users of the database so wanting to time-out queries seems an obvious desire). I'd expect such retrying to at least be optional (or to at least not retry on SIGALRM). - tye	[reply]

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Re^7: how to timeout an operation under mod_perl (EINTR)
by tye (Sage) on Sep 08, 2008 at 06:37 UTC

Retrying on EINTR? How annoying! What is the motivation for that? A DBI call seems like the perfect place one would want to interrupt something with a signal (queries can take surprisingly long to run and long-running queries can cause problems for other users of the database so wanting to time-out queries seems an obvious desire). I'd expect such retrying to at least be optional (or to at least not retry on SIGALRM).

- tye

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