Re: Question regarding Perl, DBI, and fork()

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:04:29PM -0500, Allen Landsidel wrote:
> Can the children (safely) use this handle to run database queries, or
> should I just consider the handle garbage? I didn't want to "just try and
> see" because there's always the possibility it could work "by accident"
> during the low-load testing, and fail at some other time.

No, you can't. Even multithread programs can't use the same connection at
the same time (they can if serialised or if they use different connections).

Now, getting rid of the handle without it closing the connection would be a
trick.
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