Thanks John, But the idea here is that the child doesn't need a handle at all -- I just want the mother's handle to be "left alone" ...
Tielman On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:09:58 -0400, John Saylor wrote: > hi > > no- fork YOU and die ... > > ( 03.10.07 12:31 +0100 ) tvilliers: >> I have a mother process which needs to fork off a child at every x >> milestone. >> Now, the mother has an open database handle, which from my understanding >> gets transferred to the child at fork. I want the handle to stay with the >> mother. > > why not have the child just create it's own handle? i'm no dba [but i > play one on the internet], but i've seen informix connection lists that > use PID for identifying the handles.
