I have some code that allows the user to start a process, but not to have to wait for the process to complete before moving on.

To do this a fork is used, and close STDOUT; invoked before the long process commences

This has been working fine but recently the process has started to hang, as though the close STDOUT; is being ignored. Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong, or if there is another way of starting the process then letting it run in the background?


  my $pid;
  if ($pid = fork) {
      print qq~<response type="4" status="1">~;
      print qq~ </response>\n~;
    } elsif (defined $pid) {
  close STDOUT;
#exit;
  my $myba = mybaapp->new();
  my $linkbase = $myba->mob2myba($url);
   
  $myba->sendinfo($smsfrurl);
  exit;


  } else {

    die "Major error: $!";

  } #end fork

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In reply to fork question by jonnyfolk

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