JulianL Brown wrote: > My original question must have baffled you. I want a perl script responding > to a cgi-form to execute another perl script yet return immediately. > > I have tried system and Win32::Process::Create to no avail, regardless of > which or how I have used it, the cgi script only returns when the "child" > process has finished. > > Has anyone done this before?
If the 5th arg is DETACHED_PROCESS, you should be fine. Then you can poll it for completion using Wait method with a timeout. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs