You mean forking??? You can do anything in the background by creating
another process with fork(). You can also use Thread, though I don't know
how stable it is as of now.
Also note that you will not achieve parallel processing unless you are on a
multi-processor system, but that's irrelevant to the simple task you are
trying to accomplish.
Ilya
-----Original Message-----
From: Giotto De Filippi
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/9/01 7:43 AM
Subject: background sql queries
(Sorry, may be a double post but I don't know if the other message went
throught as I was still not registered)
Hello,
Can I do SQL background queries with DBI?
like instead of doing ->prepare, ->execute and ->fetchrow_hashref
something
like ->is_ready, to do before fetchrow, so for example I could do other
things with my perl program while it's waiting for the sql databsae to
return the result.
Thanx much
Giotto
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