[Zope-dev] Starting a new process

[Chris McDonough]

I wonder if you can kick off another thread?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Ellguth" <el@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Starting a new process


> Hi,
>
> I have a lengthy operation in an external method.
> I takes up to 2 minutes.
> How do I prevent the browser from timing out?
> At the moment I am creating a new process by calling "os.fork()"
> and have that operation done in that new process.
> At the end I call "sys.exit(0)". This worked fine with Zope 2.2.4,
> but Zope 2.3 gives me an error message when calling sys.exit .
> But sys.exit is the only way to end the child-process.
>
> Can anybody tell me what's the best way to handle a lengthy operation in
an
> external method?
>
> Thanks
>
> Christian
>
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