Hello, Not sure if this isn't slightly OT, but wonder if someone can help..
I have a piece of one of my mod_perl apps that potentially takes quite a while to complete. What I would like to do is to get Apache/mod_perl to start a second process which would do the work, return a page to the user, and get on with the next thing.. ( The page would have a meta-refresh and could be updated by the separate process so the user would know how things are progressing... ) I've been trying to read up on fork, etc. but it appears that even if I fork, I have to wait about to clear up after my kids have passed on - which still leaves me with an Apache/mod_perl process hanging around... Is there a simple solution? Am I missing something? Any help or pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated! Thanks, Jim -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
