Hello Monks,
Want to know about CGI. I have a script burn.pl, which creates a web page using CGI.pm. Simple enough. Now, inside this, it should fork another perl script, called sleep.pl, which should sleep until I send it a SIGALRM. This all works, but the web page continues to have the hour glass (like the page is waiting for input from the CGI) until I send my sleeping process the SIGALRM. How would I get the web page to do the complete job (i.e. not wait with the hourglass) while still running the sleep.pl in the background?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w #Create initial feedback page
use CGI ':standard';

my $query=new CGI;

print $query->header("text/html");
print $query->start_html(-title => "This is my first web page generate
+d via CGI");
print $query->h1('This is the header document');
print <<EOF;
This is the body of the document<br/>
What goes in here is really anything you wish to put in here<br/>
EOF
if ( my $pid = fork() ) {
   system ("./sleepme.pl");
   exit; # This current process
} else {
   print $query->end_html;
}

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My sleep.pl is simple: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sleep;
exit;

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I know little about CGI, so this is all a bit new to me.
Thanks
H

20040504 Edit by broquaint: Changed title from 'CGI question - getting rid of the hour glass'

In reply to Closing parent CGI after fork() by hambo

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