Re: (4) Launch background perl script from CGI

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Re: (5) Launch background perl script from CGI by edan (Curate) on Dec 11, 2003 at 07:08 UTC
I believe the 'quick-and-dirty' way to run a process in the background on a Win32 platform is: `system('start /b yourcommand');` HTH -- 3dan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (5) Launch background perl script from CGI by Roger (Parson) on Dec 11, 2003 at 06:50 UTC
The & worked for me on XP so I assumed that it would work for you. Anyway, there are several modules that will create background processes for you on Windows NT/2K/XP platforms. Such as Proc::Background and Win32::Process on CPAN. `use Proc::Background; my $proc = Proc::Background->new("C:\\Perl\\bin\\perl.exe generate_rep +ort.pl");` [download] Will kick off a background process via Win32::Process, instead of relying on the shell to create a background process.	[reply] [d/l]