Simple threading thing

[Thomas Weholt]

I need a thread, no forking. Should run in Linux and Win32. I need a thread
that functions in the background, running beside the main server, with a
reference to the main server so it can maintain states etc. in it. The
purpose of the process is to mainly remove expired sessions ( remember this
is a webserver ), log certain values and monitor the server, and work as
sort of a janitor.

Does that make it any clearer?

Thomas

"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in message
news:j4vgchebcy.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de...
> "Thomas Weholt" <thomas at gatsoft.no> writes:
>
> > I got a webserver based on BaseHTTPServer using threads. When it starts
I
> > want to create a seperate process, a thread, that goes into the
background
> > and checks the server on given intervals, clearing expired sessions etc.
I
> > cannot get the created thread to pass control back to the server and let
it
> > continue. It just sleeps the specified interval and then does it thing
then
> > sleeps again. The server never gets into action at all.
> >
> > Any clues?
>
> What operating system? What do you mean by "create a separate process"?
>
> Regards,
> Martin