Date: 27 Sep 2001 11:37:46 GMT
From: damian@qimr.edu.au (Damian James)
Subject: Re: Forcing reevaluation of code in mod_perl scripts?
Message-Id: <slrn9r63nj.6nm.damian@puma.qimr.edu.au>

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:19:26 +0200, EXP said:
>I want to execute an external perl file from a mod_perl script but I
>don't want mod_perl to keep that external perl file in memory.
>I can't simply run it with system(""); as I need to access some global
>variables.
>...
>Any ideas?
>

A couple:

	use system(), pass the data as arguments (optionally serialised 
    with Data::Dumper or Storable, etc), suitably escaped for your
    shell.
	
	system(), share the data via files or an DBMS or another external
    mechanism (IPC shareable?).

HTH

Cheers,
Damian
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