waiting time of shell()

[Mark Smith]

Perhaps you could try using <open process>, something like:


open process perlupload for read
repeat
   wait 500 millisecs with messages
   read from process perlupload until empty
   put it into tResponse
   if "xyz" is in it then
     put it into tResponse
     exit repeat
   end if
end repeat

close process perlupload
put tResponse

You might want to put in some other exit conditions to avoid the loop  
being infinite, but this sort of approach might work better for long  
uploads.

Best,

Mark

On 6 Aug 2008, at 09:59, runrev at animabit.de wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use
>
> put shell(perlupload) into result
> if result contains "xyz" then
> put true into itworked
> else
> ...
> end if
>
> with perlupload as a perl program which loads files  through proxy  
> http on slow connections to a cgi prog on the server ... and gets  
> the http-HTML-respond page as result. This result is returned to  
> runrev and I want to check the success.
>
> This works fine for 90 % of the files but in the case the files  
> have the size of up to 5 MB the perl upload process needs more time  
> than the shell command is patient to wait. The perl process in most  
> cases continues until success, but the return of the shell is empty  
> and therefore my runrev prog never could be sure whether the upload  
> process had been successful or not. I cannot do the upload in  
> runrev native, because it is a special VPN context, which I could  
> not solve in runrev native but in perl.
>
> Q1: what is the prefigured waiting time of a shell command in runrev?
> Q2: can I change this waiting time (let shell the time to work  
> longer for long processes, before it returns control to runrev and  
> says empty as result)
>
>
> Thank you for any advice,
>
> Franz
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Franz Böhmisch
>
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