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Using system() at Web Host

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Oct 11, 2005
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I'm using system() to run a program (mailer.exu) when a link on my web page is
clicked. The thing is, the program I run will be doing something like this:

while TRUE do
  -- do some stuff
  sleep(300) -- sleep on it
  if time_to_exit() then
     exit
  end if
end while

So it should stay active once the web server is done with the system() call,
but it seems to hang, waiting for system() to return with something.  I know
that should not be the case with system().

Any hints on how to track this down? It seems the mailer.exu program and the
web server are intricately linked when they should not be.

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/