Hello Monks,

I am writing a cgi perl program and my requirement is to
fire a background process and proceed with the rest of the code.

I am using the 'system' with '&' to do this.
And this background program expects a parameter 'uid' (for userid).

Inside this program I use 'CGI' module to read the parameters.
I used the following code to fire this process -

system "/home/blahblah/www/cgi-bin/indexer ?uid=user1 &";

But this program is not able get the uid parameter. I am not an expert in Perl programming. I looked at the perl and cgi books and did this experiment. Is there any way to achieve the backgroud execution while passing the parameters?

Thanks!

In reply to Passing arguments to a background process... by Anonymous Monk

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