I believe you are referring to fork(), and exec(), not system()

So if you don't think system() does a fork() and an exec(), what do you think it does?

Update: Sorry MarkM I hadn't taken the time to understand your point properly. My experience of 500 server errors resulting from no autoflush dates back possibly as far as 5.001 and may have only been under IIS 2.0 on Windows - it's a habit I've carried for a while and can probably drop. The conclusion: Don't mess unnecessarily with $| in your CGI scripts - it won't improve efficiency.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Using perl to call a shell command? by grantm
in thread Using perl to call a shell command? by Eccentric

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