> There are several problems when using 'backtick' here: > 1) From my tests, be it a background or foreground command within > backticks, your process has to wait for it to finish to continue. A > simple Mason file can address this problem: > > <% rand() %> > <%init> > `sleep 20 &`; > </%init> > > and see how long it takes to render your webpage. > > My point: if the external program takes some non-trivial time to > finish, qx// and the likes are not the ways OP might need. > > 2) "backtick" is usually not used in a void context, this might just > be a trivial Perl problem though.
Interesting. I would have thought backticks would have returned straight away since the process was backgrounded. system() however does what you want: <%init> print "before: " . time() . "<br />"; system "sleep 200 &"; print "after" . time() . "<br />"; </%init> As you can see from the output, before and after are the same. If you 'ps aux | grep sleep', you will see apache is resting. Alfie -- http://www.Share-House.com.au FREE Share House Advertising ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
