Not sure what you mean. You are reusing a global handle, if you mean will
there be a memory leak, no since everything is deallocated at end of
execution. Otherwise I am not exactly sure, why you would think that a
different process is created:-?
Ilya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:39 PM
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: General Question DBI
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> if I have the following code
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> sub test {
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> $dbh =get_dbh;
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> test1($dbh,$somedata);
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> close($dbh);
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> }
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> sub test1 {
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> my ($dbh,$data)=@_;
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> #sql code
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> }
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> if the $sql code fails in subroutine "test1" does it causes a
> open process
> since I defined $dbh as local?
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> Anthony Scott
