On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vladislav Safronov wrote:
> I read the guide and I think the best is just add "&" :)
> (how could I forget it!)
> ..
> system("myprog la la &");
> print "</html>";
> # end
True, but what happens if your program tries to print something. You've
all in/out/err streams inherited, where in/out are tied to a socket. You
must close them at the beginning of the external script.
Anyway, it might be neater to use &, but performance wise is not, since
you spawn a shell. Of course for the heavily loaded systems. Fork is
faster.
>
>
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vladislav Safronov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > After user request my script should say that the
> > request is accepted and
> > > > > continue processing user data (it takes a time) so I
> > want to tell the
> > > > > browser
> > > > > that all data is sent. I searched mod_perl guide but I
> > didn't find such code
> > > > > snippet.
> > > > > Could you send me such example?
> > > >
> > > > $r->register_cleanup(\&do_big_work);
> > >
> > > I should have mentioned that this is far from a perfect
> > solution (cue
> > > Stas) as it ties up a mod_perl process. See the guide for alternate
> > > solutions.
> >
> > Like Matt has said, this used mostly for light things like logging or
> > process killing (Apache::{SizeLimit|GTopLimit}). See the performance
> > chapter for forking techniques for heavy jobs:
> > http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Exec
> > uting_Subprocess
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --
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> >
> >
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