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in reply to Re: Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi
in thread Perl Command Prompt while executing perl script through cgi

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.