PCNTL problems

[ddalton]

I have a set of code that looks something like:

This is more psuedo code but you can get the idea

function doget($doexec)

{

if ($doexec)
exec("getstuff.php");
else
{
// the same code in getstuff.php
$i = new getstuff();
mysql PEAR procedures to store data
}
}

$CHILD_PID = pcntl_fork();

   if($CHILD_PID == 0)
   {
    doget(FALSE);
    posix_kill(getmypid(),9);
   }

If I do this with doget (TRUE) then everything works but if I do this doget(FALSE) then mysql loses the connection. I reinstantiate my db class for every new child, is this common or am I approaching this incorrectly? I am running php
5.0.3 with mysql 4.1.x on Freebsd 5.1