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Once a day my perl cgi script tars and zips up the customer data and
ftps it to a backup server. The script takes around 10 seconds to do
this but normally runs in less than a second. Is there a way I can use
threads to do the tarring and ftping parallel with the main script
execution?

I read perlthrtut but my perl installation does not seem to support the
functionality in it. Is there any workaround besides upgrading the perl
installation?

Hello,

You don't need threads here.Just fork the childs and call the 'exec' to do
the additional works in your CGI answers.

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> Once a day my perl cgi script tars and zips up the customer data and
> ftps it to a backup server. The script takes around 10 seconds to do
> this but normally runs in less than a second. Is there a way I can use
> threads to do the tarring and ftping parallel with the main script
> execution?
>
> I read perlthrtut but my perl installation does not seem to support the
> functionality in it. Is there any workaround besides upgrading the perl
> installation?
>