executing a background script from embedded perl

[mike]

nginx doesn't support perl natively anyway does it?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Kingsley Foreman
<kingsley at internode.com.au> 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.
>
>
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