I'd drop the question mark from the command line to solve your problem, but then, why should you use a CGI interface for the program you're launching in the background?

Apart for this, I' don't like much the idea of launching another process from a web page. You sure there is no smarter way to do it, like having a process running and queuing requests to it? As you don't know when the process will end, I presume what you need to do is not synchronous. You could just add a flag on a table (or write a flag-file in a directory) and then a single process would look for existing flags and process them one at a time.

This has the adventages that you 'pay' for program startup only once (process creation and code compilation, if it's in Perl), you have no racing conditions to take care of, and you can write readable logs (as it will process one thing at a time), and as you have only one instance running there is only one copy of the program in RAM at a given time.

My 0.02 euros

In reply to Re: Passing arguments to a background process... by l3nz
in thread Passing arguments to a background process... by Anonymous Monk

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