> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Emerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 3:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: doing work on the side
>
>
> I have a CGI script that downloads data from MySQL and provides a
> hyperlink to download the zipped file.
>
> The problem arises when the data download takes too long, and
> the script
> times out. Is there a way to have the download part of the
> script split
> off into the background, show the link, and quit? So that I can say,
> "When the data is ready, it will be available at the following URL:"?
> Is this what fork() is for, and if so, how do I use it?
Yes, that's what fork is for.
You would do something like:
my $pid = fork;
die "Couldn't fork" unless defined $pid;
if ($pid) {
# we're the parent
...emit the response to the client (the link)...
# parent now can exit
exit;
}
# now we're the child
... do your long-running process here
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