On 5/9/07, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip
In short -- you are lucky it can be supported. But in order to keep things portable, this might be something to avoid?
In his case there is not a portability issue. What is not portable is using the parent's handle inside the child, but he is opening a new handle inside the child. The problem was the auto-close behavior which is made a non-problem by the flag. You should never expect to be able to use a database handle from one process inside another; it may be possible, but you should not be surprised when it breaks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/