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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP broken pipe in fork
From: sthomas@townnews.com (Shaun Thomas)

user@domain.invalid wrote:

> The child process doesn't use any database connection, just to run some 
> shell scripts, but it closes the connection anyway.

You still don't get it.  As a fork, the child process has all of the 
same resources as the parent before the fork occurred.  When the child 
exits, it will close those resources, leaving the parent high and dry.

> I initialy used PEAR DB and then _pconnect functions but the result is 
> the same.

Not sure why that would be.  Maybe the CLI doesn't honor _pconnect based 
functions, since pconnect was originally designed for keeping 
connections persistent across server processes.

> Was the bug solved two years ago ?

This is *not* a bug.  It is a natural part of how PHP cleans up after 
itself.  There are many ways to circumvent this, but are left as an 
exercise for the programmer.  In our case, we did a test on the 
connection at all times before using it, and reconnected if the resource 
was ever closed or invalid; your mileage may vary.

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Shaun M. Thomas                INN Database Administrator
Phone: (309) 743-0812          Fax  : (309) 743-0830
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