Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > Hi, > I am writing a perl application that connect to a database and then > does a fork() > The child completes the process and does a exit(), but the problem is > it closes the database connection which the parent would like to use. > > Can I exit the child process without disconnecting the parent dbi > handle
I would strongly recommend you connect after the fork. Each process needs to have its own connection. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>