Hi,
well, this <emph>only</emph> implies that you'll have to devote a process (either the father or one of the siblings) handle the handle (bad pun, sorry) and the (other) children will have to talk with that process to use the connection.

IIRC, that's the way Apache::DBI works.

Cheers

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Leo TheHobbit
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