Simple threading thing

[Martin von Loewis]

"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