in reply to Stumped on IPC...

when you fork && exit, did you close STDERR STDOUT and STDIN? You must close STDOUT... simply not writing to it is not enough

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Re: Re: Stumped on IPC...
by ismail (Acolyte) on Sep 25, 2001 at 22:32 UTC
    That was it... thanks. Magic code is as follows: 
    ...
fork && exit;
close STDOUT;
system ("./someprog.cgi") || warn "funniness $!";
...

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    thanks s.a.
    f.
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      Watch out for how you check the return from system. It returns 0 on success, not failure, in a typical environment. 
      my $result = system("./someprog.cgi");
warn "funniness: error code $?" if $result;

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