in reply to background ftp transfers

Net::Ftp has its own Timeout value available in the constructor Net::FTP->new('somehost.com', Timeout=>...).

So I don't see the problem with forking.

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Re: Re: background ftp transfers
by zonem (Initiate) on Aug 10, 2001 at 15:51 UTC
    If I recall; that timeout value only has an effect when connecting to the FTP server; not for transfers.
    Net::FTP will wait for a put or get to either complete or to fail before it returns control back to the script.
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