Hi, Monks,

I want to access a script to run some routines, but I want to return to the page I call it from immediately, but continue running (it's running some tedious housekeeping during a registration). I have a way to do it, but it seems very awkward. Is there a better way. Without forking, that is ;) 
#start of cgi
#blah blah blah

if(fork()) {

  exit 0;

} else {

  close STDOUT;
  close STDIN;
  close STDERR;

  # do rest of work here
}

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I know there's no checking of results, etc., but that's not my worry at the moment. It's just a time consideration. With the code in the main registration page, people could get quite fed up waiting.

Oh, we're running vanilla cgi here, no mod-perl (not my choice!).

In reply to script return control, but continue running? by Jasper

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