Hi, I reworked my code so that my parent process opened the DBI connection after the child was forked, and everything works fine. So it looks like Robin is right.
The one thing I don't understand just now is how the parent automatically re-connected to MySQL after the child clobbered the DBI connection. regards, Martin -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]