Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi

[bhikshu]

Hi,

I have set up a web page under IIS 7 which calls a perl cgi script.

This perl cgi launches another perl script using backticks.

Whenever this second script is launched and if web page is being accessed from same server where IIS is installed, a command prompt is displayed with it's title being E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe which is where I have installed perl.

Is there a way to hide this window and let the execution of second script be done as a background process?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Anonymous Monk]

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.

[TJPride]

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.

[Anonymous Monk]

hide command prompt -> How to hide the command prompt open duing the execution of system command?

says use Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0);