executing a background script from embedded perl

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Does this behaviour change, if you use "nohup sleep 200..."?

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:05:26PM +0930, Kingsley Foreman wrote:
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>> Hi guys just wondering if  you could run
>> exec("sleep 200 &") in an embedded perl script and let nginx keep doing its 
>> thing.
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>> 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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> ngx_http_perl_module waits perl only, so in this case the perl waits exec().
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