pcntl_fork and the MySQL connection is gone

Question

I have a foreach loop that forks within it. After the process forks, it accesses the database. I get an error:

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL ser         


        

Answer 1

(comment --> answer per poster's request)

Reading more into it I see forked children do inherit their parent's db connection, and it is a known problem: http://php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php#70721