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You seem to be unclear about what fork does, in Perl and on many operating systems. See Fork (operating system) for a more general introduction. If you are on Windows, it's best to avoid fork overall, especially when trying to use DBI.

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Re^4: to "use vars" or not to
by westy032001 (Novice) on Nov 08, 2010 at 19:14 UTC
    Thanks again for the reply and link.

    So to summarize, creating a global (via use vars) $dbh database handle in a module called from a forked child cannot impact another forked child because the child is a copy of the parent prior to the creation of the $dbh. ?

    hopefully thats right ? cheers.
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      Right. If the dbh was created before forking, that would be another story.
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