On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:22:21AM -0700, bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm testing an app where i want a parent app to create the mysql db > connection link/handle, and basically pass this handle off to child > procesess. is there any reason why this can't be done? are there any > examples of this already being accomplished that you might provide??? > > as far as i can tell/see, it should be possible. as long as the parent is > still running, the connection link/handle should still be valid. > > i'm going to ultimately be working in perl/php/c but if i can get it working > in one language, i can get it in the others as well.... > > any thoughts/comments/criticisms/etc....
Can you establish a connection in the parent, fork a child, and then let the child use it? Yes, you can do that. But you need to be careful. If the parent and child *both* try to use it, chaos will ensue. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
