[LA.pm] Problem with FastCGI under Apache 2

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Benjamin J. Tilly wrote:

> I know the problems, but I'll continue using them unless you can offer 
> another way to break out of a call to DBI's connect_cached within a 
> fixed (fairly short) time.
>

If you have a known badly behaved call, and you have to meet strict 
SLAs, and you are not willing to tolerate undefined behavior in your 
application, and you are dedicated to Perl, the only method I know of 
is to hide the naughty call behind some type of IPC.  The IPC calls all 
work nicely, so your server process never hangs, even if the helper 
process gets stuck.

-kevin