This isn't necessarily Tru64-specific but I'm using Netscape Enterprise
Server and running CGIs written in C. In particular, one CGI does a file
deletion and then generates HTML code on the fly. If I run the CGI
interactively, it works as it should. On the web, however, it acts as if
the operations are occurring asynchronously. Sometimes the file is deleted
and the correct form is displayed. Sometimes it doesn't delete the file.
My guess is that, somehow, the HTML is generated and executed by the web
server before the original CGI completes. Can anyone confirm or refute
this? And, better yet, can you suggest a workaround? A sleep()
statement would be a possibility but it's only a band-aid at this point.
Thanks.
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
Associate Director, System and Network Services P.O. Box 1773
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 245-1256
FAX: (717) 245-1690
Received on Thu May 17 2001 - 15:42:48 NZST