executing a background script from embedded perl

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:47:39AM -0700, mike wrote:

> wait, perl module?

Yes, perl module:

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxEmbeddedPerlModule

> does that mean i can run perl-based .cgi and .pl scripts directly from
> nginx? i didn't think this was supported?

This is possible, but not recommended.

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > 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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