executing a background script from embedded perl

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:05:26PM +0930, Kingsley Foreman wrote:

> Hi guys just wondering if  you could run
> exec("sleep 200 &") in an embedded perl script and let nginx keep doing its 
> thing.
> 
> Obviously sleep is just an example however i don't appear to be able to run 
> a program in the background.
> the nginx process waits until the backgrounded script completes before 
> continuing.

ngx_http_perl_module waits perl only, so in this case the perl waits exec().


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