what does:

if(fork())

do? does this fork the process if it can?

is fork not allowed in some systems? this script is most likely going to be running on *nix, I'm very unknowing about how to make any forked processes. There are no easy to understand tutorial on it :)

would it be better to have the web-based program actually gather the information, then pipe this info to another script that only does the mailing? this seems to be a somewhat the same idea to fork() to a child process to do the dirty work. Then would that script not fall into the timeouts of the cgi program?

>>you should also close STDIN
probably a good idea!

Seems simple to just mail whoever the owner of the list is every time a batch goes out, or when the mailing is done to keep tabs.

I'm stil a bit shaky on how to do this, does anyone else have any good advice? -justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to RE: Re: Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function by skazat
in thread Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function by skazat

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