URGENT!!!processing in batch mode

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Re: URGENT!!!processing in batch mode by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2008 at 17:06 UTC
Split your problem into two problems: Make sure that only one instance of a program is run. Display a page to watch a long-running process. Unsurprisingly, merlyn has solved both problems for you already: Highlander - allow only one invocation at a time of an expensive CGI script Watching Long Processes Through CGI	[reply]
Re: URGENT!!!processing in batch mode by Joost (Canon) on Mar 06, 2008 at 17:47 UTC
That doesn't look very urgent to me. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]