On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:40 -0500, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > If you instantiate a DBI handle before the fork, then that handle is > shared to all the children. If you instantiate the handle after the > fork, the handle belongs to only that child , and shared across the > requests of that child. So, if you get a handle, then spawn 12 > children, they will each share the single handle.
You're forgetting the next part: "...and then everything will break." Don't fork with an open database connection and then try to use it. It will not work. - Perrin
