Hi David,
Check out the guide at
http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocess
The Eagle book also covers the C API subprocess details on page 622-631.
Let us know if the guide is unclear to you, so we can improve it.
Ed
"David E. Wheeler" wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Quick question - can I fork off a process in mod_perl? I've got a piece
> of code that needs to do a lot of processing that's unrelated to what
> shows up in the browser. So I'd like to be able to fork the processing
> off and return data to the browser, letting the forked process handle
> the extra processing at its leisure. Is this doable? Is forking a good
> idea in a mod_perl environment? Might there be another way to do it?
>
> TIA for the help!
>
> David
>
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