in reply to Execute with No wait

one possibility is to write a program that will output a simple page to the browser and then call another program that actually does the nitty gritty stuff. the browser will get a page and be satisfied and the other program will take care of dealing with the input.

jeff

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RE: RE: Execute with No wait
by bp (Novice) on Aug 24, 2000 at 23:12 UTC
    Thanks for the reply. This doesn't seem to work either. The 'simple page' will not display until the 'nitty gritty' finishes even though I am using $| = 1 :-(
      try using pipe/fork/exec/some-combination. you want to get the program that outputs the page to finish even when the other script is going on. I think you can do it with a combination of fork and pipe || exec. if you follow merlyn's link, it'll probably tell you exactly what to do.

      jeff