[Mapserver-dev] FCGI & Database Failure

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Oct 19 17:06:44 EDT 2004


Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Well, dramatic death (ie (b)) would ensure that a clean fast cgi process
> gets started and it would go through the normal processes to acquire a new
> connection for the next request.  This approach provides for guaranteed
> self-cleanup as long as you are willing to have occational map requests 
> fail.

Out of curiousity, what will happen *now* if we get a bad connection 
(for example, if one of the SDE calls returns bad, and we 
return(MS_FAILURE)). In CGI land, we are now dead, the process shuts 
down. Where are we in FCGI land?



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