Re: Parent process waiting for child process

in reply to Parent process waiting for child process

The technique outlined in Watching Long Running Processes Through CGI should have both, the dissociation of the background process from the parent and a way of displaying the "Please hold the line" page.

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Re^2: Parent process waiting for child process by scorpio17 (Canon) on Oct 06, 2011 at 14:37 UTC
I think the step most people overlook, is that when you use fork, then child process has to 'close STDOUT', in order to "break the connection" to the web server.	[reply]

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