From: Ian S. <ia...@et...> - 2002-05-22 19:55:21
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Beautiful. Thank you both. - Ian S. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Bicking [mailto:ia...@co...] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:48 PM To: Matt Feifarek Cc: Ian Sparks; Webware-Discuss "(E-mail) Subject: RE: [Webware-discuss] Long Running Process... On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 12:38, Matt Feifarek wrote: > Look at TaskKit. > > Or, roll your own by launching a threaded 'something' that waits 20 minutes, > does its thing, then closes itself down. It seems like spawning a new thread makes the most sense -- then that thread can work away, email the user, and end. As long as you don't foresee lots of people starting processes all at once (so that you might have to queue them, assuming it takes 20 minutes because it's resource-intensive). Ian |