Re: Re: Fork and zombies

Jochem Maas wrote: > Per Jessen schreef: >> Waynn Lue wrote: >> >>> (Apologies for topposting, I'm on my blackberry). Hm, so you think >>> exiting from the child thread causes the db resource to get >>> reclaimed? >>> >> >> Yeah, something like that. The connection is definitely closed when >> the child exits. >> > > I can confirm this. you definitely need to open a connection for each > child process. if you require a db connection in the parent process, > you should close it before forking (and then reopen it afterwards if > you still need it). Yep, exactly my thinking. > at least that's what I found I had to do when I ran into this. > incidently my forking loop looks like this, very interested to know if > Per can spot any obvious stupidity: I doubt it. I can't quite follow your code after the pcntl_wait where you've got a pcntl_kill(), but it looks like an insurance policy? "just in case" ? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.0°C)