Hi all,
I would like to know the consequence in using alarm and die in a
perl-handler.
For example consider this
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxEmbeddedPerlImageResize
The blocking code is the following
$image= new Image::Magick;
$image->Read($real_file_path);
$image->Scale($dimensions);
$image->Write($dest_file);
Sometimes this code can hold all resources and normal requests cannot be
served.
So if I follow the example from mod_perl and die in 2 seconds, what will
be
the consequence to the current requests?
my $timeout = 2; # seconds
eval {
local $SIG{ALRM} =
sub { die “Sorry, timed out. Please try again\n” };
alarm $timeout;
the operation listed above
alarm 0;
};
die $@ if $@;