CGI Timeout

[CFtaxtron]

Help, I have setup a basic fork and everythig runs fine until the end when I get the error message.

CGI Timeout
The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process.

Here's the code that I'm using.

#! d:\perl\bin\perl.exe

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

unless ($pid = fork) {
unless (fork) {
exec "techsurvey.pl";
die "no exec";
print "Hello";
exit 0;
}
exit 0;
}
waitpid($pid,0);

Any help to get rid of the error message would be greatly appreciated.

Tim

 

[goBoating]

There are several parts of your code that I don't understand.

You do a fork to create a child process.
Then, in that child, you do an 'exec'. That 'exec' terminates the child and runs 'techsurvey.pl'. At that point, your child no longer exists.
Then, you do a 'die' which I think has no effect because
you already killed the child process with the 'exec'.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Can you annotate it a little so we can get an idea?

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[MikeLacey]

that looks ok to me actually - the die will only get run if the script continues past the exec, if the exec fails in other words.

Does the server tell you which process it's killed off? I'd bet it's the child that's having some sort of problem and looping like mad. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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