Re: Re: Stumped on IPC...

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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Re: Re: Re: Stumped on IPC... by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:03 UTC
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;` [download] buckaduck	[reply] [d/l] [select]