Hello Pratik, Between yours and Michael's solutions, I think yours is a closer fit (thanks Michael!) to my needs. According to Cache::FastMmap, I only need to initialise the file during the PerlRequire stage in httpd.conf. Then the rest of the scripts can just use it. Is this correct?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pratik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Foo Ji-Haw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <modperl@perl.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:21 PM Subject: Re: how to share data among modperl processes > Unless you are running the application in multiple server environment, > http://search.cpan.org/~robm/Cache-FastMmap-1.09/ would be the best > choice. But probably you should read up on AJAX as well. It looks like > AJAX can help you accomplish what you are trying to do here. > > Thanks, > Pratik > > On 10/7/05, Foo Ji-Haw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a simple need where a process can take minutes to complete. But I > > want to display some progress bar of sorts to the user. > > > > My idea is to have the handler call the local url which does the heavy > > lifting. Something like this: > > http://localhost/job/dojob => launches => > > http://localhost/job/actualjobworker > > > > > > The local url will set some global hash to say that it is still working on > > the job. The original handler (/job/dojob) becomes a polling script to check > > on the global hash to see if the work is completed. > > > > I read from the wiki that it is possible to have a 'global' variable where > > all process can read/write to it. Can someone point me in the direction? I > > tried perl.apache.org but can't find anything there. A url should do the > > trick. > > > > Thanks. > > > -- > http://www.rails.info - Coming Soon !
