[Pdx-pm] CGI & flushing filehandles

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Mar 24 23:26:00 CST 2004


>>>>> "Wil" == Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> writes:

Wil> I'm working on a CGI application that needs to sleep() a minute or two
Wil> before performing some final operations (it needs to send an e-mail to
Wil> an account that's being created, but the external process that creates
Wil> the account checks for new tasks every minute).  The problem is the the
Wil> page doesn't seem to finish loading regardless of whether I have $|=1
Wil> set or whether I close(STDOUT).  What does work is to fork(), sleep(),
Wil> then send the e-mail, but this seems rather kludgy to me.  Is this the
Wil> best way to handle this sort of thing?

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