Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben@stripped> wrote:
> Is there a way of checking for live connections prior to using
> mysql_connect in the C API (asside from mysql_ping)
Try to open a TCP connection to port 3306 of target server. If
successful - then "connections are live". Close that test
connection correctly and then do mysql_connect.
Just a first idea.
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