Re^3: Background process with perl and lighttpd

flushing the output does not work...

The only thing that works is closing STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. But then the script stops!

This is what I have:

my $q        = new CGI;
my $session  = CGI::Session->load($q);
my $tmpfile  = $q->upload('upfile');
my $filename = $q->param('upfile');
print $q->redirect('showProgress.cgi');
close STDOUT;
close STDIN;
close STDERR;

# <-- script stops here!

append_file( 'debug', "start\n" );
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Re^4: Background process with perl and lighttpd by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2010 at 12:31 UTC
This is the pattern Watching long processes through CGI (Aug 02)	[reply]
Re^5: Background process with perl and lighttpd by MonsieurBon (Initiate) on Jun 03, 2010 at 13:44 UTC
Thx alot, this helped! What is this for? `unless (open F, "-\|") { open STDERR, ">&=1"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Background process with perl and lighttpd by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2010 at 15:28 UTC
We'll do this with a pipe-open which includes an implicit fork, in line 37. The grandchild process merges STDERR to STDOUT, and then executes traceroute, passing it the validated host parameter from before. Also, perldoc -f open	[reply]