I believe it's possible to start a new and independent(?) thread in Perl. Is this also possible with a Perl script running as a CGI application?

I have a script that handles some basic database maintenance on a Berkeley DB via a web-interface (developed in-house). I would like to be able to order a backup of the database through the browser. This much I have already enabled... but, the database is quite large (2.7Gb) and the backup takes a couple of minutes to complete. In the meantime, the user is left with a "Please Wait" message in their inactive browser, before the inevitable time-out. This looks very unprofessional and the powers that be want it cleaned up! :-(

I'd like to run my backup sub-routine as a seperate process so that the user can initiate the backup and then carry on working. How do I do this?

 

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practise.  But in practise, there is.
 
Jonathan M. Hollin
Digital-Word.com

In reply to Starting a new process (fork?) by DarkBlue

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