Re: for a background process and return

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jiesheng zhang wrote:
> Hi
> I am try to run something like this in my cgi.
> -------------------------------------
> system ("sleep 3000 &");
> -----------------------------------
> Since, it is time-consuming task, I let it run in background and 
> immediately return to user. I tested this script. It was no problem for 
> a standalone perl script. However, once I had this script in a perl cgi. 
> The script seemed  not to have this system command run in background. It 
> waited there for the child process to finish.
> Any clue for why it behaved like that? How can I for a child process in 
> background and return immediately to the web user?
> 
> Help is really appreciated!

jiesheng, please take a look at:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocesses_from_mod_perl
it explains how to do this sort of things.

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