On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Anton Permyakov wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to start process, which would get big amount of data from another > server into my DataBase, > and while it will do it, my browser should show me progress-bar on this data > extraction.
> I have mod_perl based web-server, so, i should not use fork(), as explained > in Mod_perl docs. But also i cannot invoke system(), as this proccess could > take very long time. > What i have to do? I'm not sure that I understand what you want to do, however, have you considered: * writing a handler which would connect to a deamon which itself could start the secondary process. * The script running the secondary processes could update some datastore which you could periodically read from to show progress. * It might also be possible to use syscalls straight from your script to get progress on your dataextraction - depending on what and how it is being extracted. * Meta-refresh the page every now and then to keep updating your progress bar. R. -- Senior Programmer Bookings.nl ---------------------------------------------------------- Me::[EMAIL PROTECTED]||www.dreamthought.com Budget hosting on my 10Mbit/backbone::[EMAIL PROTECTED]
