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 from Rajat Sharma at "Jul 5, 2006  9:52:25 am"
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:29:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hugh Williams <hughw@soco.agilent.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] CGI help on apache needed

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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