[ILUG] spawning a process from a web page..

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Tried execing. Even execing a shell script and putting it into the
background with &
The shell script then calls my perl script using exec and & as well..

I wonder what would happen if the perl script killed off the shell
script.. :>

Donncha.

Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> On 16-Nov-99 Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> >I'd like to spawn a Perl script from a PHP script running off Apache and
> 
> call it with a system call started in the bg with & ?
> 
> fork and exec twice ? with the child returning
> immediately leaving the grandchild a child of initd and no
> longer your problem ?
>