Re: Sinister variable caching problem with rand()

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Anthony Esposito
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In one of my programs I started to receive database errors for not having a
> unique id. I generate unique ids for each of the mysql lines that I add to
> the database. I realized that the perl variable $idNum was keeping the same
> random string for multiple executions.

You need to call srand() in s a child init handler:
http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=123904225030744&w=1

However, I have to ask, why are you generating id numbers randomly?
Why not just let mysql  do it with auto_increment?

- Perrin