Is there really a need to use forking? Instead, how about:
1. CGI prints instant reply.
2. CGI execs long job (you *are* using exec and not system, right?), and
exits.
3. long job sends mail (exec or system or a subroutine) when it's done.
You'd need to pass $loginid to the long job of course.
hugh
Rajat Sharma wrote:
>
> Script looks something like below
>
> 1. print ("Location: http://XYZ:9090/Project/filepath.html\n\n";);
> 2. close(STDOUT);
> 3. my $pid = fork;
>
> 4. $pid = 0 unless defined $pid; # be the kid if fork failed
>
> 5. exit 0 if $pid;
>
> ## child...
>
> 6. close(STDOUT);
>
> ### LONG DIRTY JOB START
> 7. exec "la_results.pl $input{'dirPath'} $checkboxString";
> ### LONG DIRTY JOB OVER
>
> 8. mail.pl $loginId ## MAIL THE NOTIFICATION
>
> Issue is that the after submit of the page, the IE still keeps loading
> the page until the long\dirty job is over.
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