There ought to be a better way. I'm not very familar with web issues but for plain CGI I'd have expected a SIGHUP and/or SIGPIPE to be delivered to the process. Those could be caught and trigger cleanup.
Tim. On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:12:30AM -0700, Reidy, Ron wrote: > Look at setting the sqlnet.expire_time parameter in your server's > $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/sqlnet.ora file. > From: Kevin Bass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a slight problem that I am attemping to solve. I am using CGI/Perl > (DBD Oracle) on Linux AS 2.1 to access to the database. When users encounter > problems on the web, they cancel (or press stop) in their browsers. This > will stop there browser interaction and also cause the database connection > to not disconnect which causes a runaway process. Is there an article that I > can read or a procedure/module or process that someone has written within > CGI or DBI (or sometimes else) that will allow me to kill my database > connection when a users stops an execute within his/her browser? Thanks! > > Kevin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>