Maybe you take STDOUT away too early (buffering and race condition) ?

Does this work? 
  my $pid;
  if ($pid = fork) {
      local $| = 1; # patch1
      print qq~<response type="4" status="1">~;
      print qq~ </response>\n~;
    } elsif (defined $pid) {
  sleep 1; # patch2
  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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Update: Ahhh, brainglitch. Forget this!
Some more things to check: Did you update any modules recently? Does mybaapp use I/O (STDOUT)? What do you mean by ignored? Does the child still print something to STDOUT? Does it work if you do not close STDOUT? Did you use warnings;? Any warnings seen (e.g. print() on closed filehandle STDOUT at xxx line yyy.)? Any signals caught (SIGPIPE, SIGCHLD, etc.)? What does the main program (parent) do? Does it wait?

In reply to Re: fork question by Perlbotics
in thread fork question by jonnyfolk

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