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 haven't tried using fork but I have accomplished what you're asking by executing a sys.stdout.flush() after the original message, before calling the background process.

i.e.

print "Please wait..."
sys.stdout.flush()

output = some_processing() # put what you want to accomplish here
print output               # in my case output was a redirect to a results page