Re: Handling DB operations in signal handler

in reply to Handling DB operations in signal handler

It's generally not a good idea to run long, complex stuff from a signal handler (even with Perl's "safe signals"). Best is to just set some flag in the signal handler that you check and act upon in the main loop.

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Re^2: Handling DB operations in signal handler by ajeet@perl (Acolyte) on Apr 10, 2010 at 10:05 UTC
Thank You almut.... yeah, doing long operation was the problem...	[reply]

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