Re: pro*c, aix 4.2.1 oracle 7.3.4.3, signal handling problems.

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 7:39:50 +0200, ronr_at_my-deja.com wrote (in message <7k24j5$gcm$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>):
>
> I am in the progress of porting some program from a single aix node to a
> SP-2 (silvernode) runnning aix 4.2.1 using oracle 7.3.4.3. The program forks
> and catches SIGCHLD signals. The program dies when a signal is caught while
> executing an embedded pl/sql block.
>
> How do I have to catch such a thing ? I did register the signal using
> signal. In the server manual for aix administrators I did find something
> about catching signals but that's not a very complete piece of
> ducumentation...

After finding out that multi threading is not supported in oracle-7 on aix I redesigned the program making the oracle connected part a client of a server that forks many processes and is able to catch SIGCHLD without messing op the oracle code.

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