Re: Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi

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Hi,

Why are you calling a Perl script from a perl script?

Ectract the workings of the second script and put them into the CGI script as a subroutine.

J.C.

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Re^2: Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Sep 25, 2013 at 20:02 UTC
Because the inner process could theoretically die, and you don't want the outer process to die too, and/or you don't want to worry about spill-over from one instance of the inner process to the next (even if it's just memory usage). I have one client that does long, complicated data imports, and I use a master script to call scripts that process individual data sets. So it's not necessarily a bad approach.	[reply]

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Re^2: Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi
by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Sep 25, 2013 at 20:02 UTC

Because the inner process could theoretically die, and you don't want the outer process to die too, and/or you don't want to worry about spill-over from one instance of the inner process to the next (even if it's just memory usage). I have one client that does long, complicated data imports, and I use a master script to call scripts that process individual data sets. So it's not necessarily a bad approach.

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