Re: Starting another programme from mod

You could just fork it off like this:

unless (fork) {
  exec("/some/long/running/program");
  # exec never returns here
}
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Re: Starting another programme from mod_perl by suaveant (Parson) on Apr 02, 2004 at 20:31 UTC
That may cause issues... you may need to close STDOUT as well, and possibly STDERR. I know you need to do this from a CGI, otherwise the child can cause the process to stay open. It seems there is also a call to detach a process from a process group, just for an extra measure of independance, but I don't remember what that call is. - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]