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.
That's a function of the C client library, upon which DBD::mysql is built. If the connection times out, the next query causes an auto-reconnect.
regards, Martin
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