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 needed to break the stdout as well as the stderr like this:

sys.stdout.flush()
os.close(sys.stdout.fileno()) # Break web pipe
sys.sterr.flush()
os.close(sys.stderr.fileno()) # Break web pipe
if os.fork(): # Get out parent process
   sys.exit()
#background processing follows here