Sharing 1 OCI connection between 2 programs

Hey,
I try to write c-prog's on a AIX 4.1 using OCI and Oracle server 7.3.2 . Is it possible to use one OCI-connection in two independent processes ? I mean:

   Can I share one LDA-HDA pair between two programs    Program 1 call ORLON and make a connection to oracle    Program 2 use the connection made with Program 1 (Program 2 DO NOT call ORLON again)

Have somebody a tip to do this ?

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