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Re: Waitby gbarr (Monk) |
on Oct 03, 2001 at 01:32 UTC ( [id://116272]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I see, at least in the first call, that you are passing
a URL. Do any of the variables passed in contain & ?
system() with a single argument will call the shell which will interpret the & to mean background the process. If that happens system() will return straight away. The solution is to use the multi-arg system(), but in the first instance you also want to redirect, so you may have to fork() and exec() Something like
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