It's become clear I need to go back and rethink my logic for this functionality. Thanks for all of the suggestions.
-- John
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:25 AM, John D. West <john.d.west@asu.edu> wrote: > I *think* my independent processes are cleaning up in that they supposedly > abort themselves if they lose db connection, but on restart there is a table > of pid's I'd like to (1) make sure all of the processes are really dead, > killing any who aren't (2) reset flags in a table showing the status of > those process, and (3) clear out the pid list so I can restart the > processes.
Hmm. I wonder is there a way to not use a table for this. What's the status flagging intended to do? Can it be accomplished with, perhaps, locks?