1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs

[spider.git] / cmd / connect.pl

diff --git a/cmd/connect.pl b/cmd/connect.pl
index 93f62b71871d7d90b03c9e910edef02dfef72626..df9a42389c73dc38400c0b8f4b12dd3904855da0 100644 (file)
--- a/cmd/connect.pl
+++ b/cmd/connect.pl
@@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ $prog = "$main::root/perl/client.pl" if ! -e $prog;
 my $pid = fork();
 if (defined $pid) {
        if (!$pid) {
-               # in child
+               # in child, unset warnings, disable debugging and general clean up from us
+               $^W = 0;
+               $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
+               eval "{ package DB; sub DB {} }";
+               alarm(0);
+               DXChannel::closeall();
+               $SIG{CHLD} = $SIG{TERM} = $SIG{INT} = $SIG{__WARN__} = 'DEFAULT';
                exec $prog, $call, 'connect';
        } else {
+               sleep(1);    # do a coordination
                return(1, $self->msg('constart', $call));
        }
 }