how to do update process in background

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I have to do some update operation on the background. Because it takes so many times. Therefore I shouldn't wait for this operation. User should send any different comment during the update operation.

My OS is Linux and I use C programing Lang. as far as my search, I have to use fork() function for this.

Any different idea?

Why? I am going to do 2 operation at the same time with fork(). Do you have any different idea? — ceyun, Nov 23 '14 at 19:31
You could use [pthreads or clone](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5514464/difference-between-pthread-and-fork-on-gnu-linux). — code monkey, Nov 23 '14 at 19:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '14 at 13:09

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If you want to do things parallelly, multi-process(fork) or multi-thread(pthread) could be used.

You can fork a child process to do the update operation, or you can use pthread_create to do the samething.

answered Nov 25 '14 at 13:09

D3Hunter

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