<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2" STYLE="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #FFFFFF">You can easily use a long-running Metacard stack in the background- just launch it normally and communicate from your CGI using sockets (or any other IAC).<BR>
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Problem is- you can only handle one connection at a time with the long-running stack.<BR>
That is why I've been investigating using multiple processes with the Darwin engine.<BR>
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but not tries it yet... something to do with having MC already running<BR>
in background on the server (ie not started by a cgi)?<BR>
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Is it then possible for the CGI to start using / send messages to the MC<BR>
stacks already up and running? This has to be possible via some type of<BR>
IAC but is the process started via the same as the mc engine running in<BR>
the background...<BR>
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