How to start and not wait for a process within another process?

dionu · May 23, 2003

I have a CGI script that I want to invoke a perl file. The problem is, I don't want the cgi script to be terminated (exec command) and I don't want the cgi script to wait for the perl process to finish.

I have been trying variations of the following:

system("nohup ./process.pl $filename &&quot

;

Any ideas???

PaulTEG · May 23, 2003

fork?

PaulTEG · May 23, 2003

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How to start and not wait for a process within another process?

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