LPM: RE: Hey! You out there! Hello?

[Steve Lane]

Janine wrote:
> B.  The discussion will involve safe ways to start a child process from
> a cgi, not wait for it to finish, but also not create zombies, and

i can probably help with this.  can you give a test case,
or what you have so far?

the "variables" with this are:
- which webserver
- close STDOUT?
- fork && exec or system "cmd&"?
- $SIG{CHLD}?

but i'll need to see a code example before i can recommend
anything concrete.
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Steve Lane <sml at zfx.com>