Start background process/daemon from CGI script

Question

I\'m trying to launch a background process from a CGI scripts. Basically, when a form is submitted the CGI script will indicate to the user that his or her request is being

Answer 1

I wouldn't suggets going about the problem this way. If you need to execute some task asynchronously, why not use a work queue like beanstalkd instead of trying to fork off the tasks from the request? There are client libraries for beanstalkd available for python.