Multiprocessing proposed solution

[K]

Okay, Andre Garzia inspired me to investigate multi-processing using Runtime Revolution with his httpd stack.  At first glance it seemed impossible nut through trial and error I have a semi-functional solution.  I created a external wich is using a named sockets, pipes, mutexes, semaphores, events and even shared memory.  Here is the break down....


Process A (Parent)
Process B (Child)


Process 'A' using the sockets library in the GLIBExternal creates and listens on a selected port (in my case 80).  Process 'A' accepts the call on a "named" socket.  Then shell invokes process 'B' with the command line option --socket <named socket> (you can use any name you like) process B can now read and write to the named socket using the GLIBExternal socket interface.  Process A and B can then cordinate their activities via named mutexes, semaphoes, events and shared memory blocks. Of course Process A must uniquely name each socket and provided that name to the GLIBExternal as well as the child process (demostrated below).  I have not worked out the kinks of the shared memory on all platforms but I should be able to solve them in time.  The implementation on Win32 is easier on Win32 and Linux since I am a experienced developer on those platforms.

The low down is that Andre's httpd stack could operate simular to the Apache httpd using child processes to handle individual clients. 

Kevin


/**____________________________________________________________________________________

--Create a simple universal unique idenity<br>
--<br>
-- at param aSuffix just to customize the key a bit.
-- at return empty success
*/
function generateUUID aSuffix
  
  
  local tTime --Time portion of UUID
  local tRandom --Random portion of UUID
  local tAddress --Localhost address
  local tData --UUID Data
  
  put ticks() * 1000 into tTime 
  put random( CONST_MAX_UUID_RANDOM ) * 10000000000000000 into tRandom 
  put hostNameToAddress( hostName() ) into tAddress
  
  put tTime & tRandom & tAddress & aSuffix into tData
  
  put md5Digest( tData ) into tData
  put base64encode( tData ) into tData
  
  return tData
  
end generateUUID


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