"fork" command?

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:
 >> On 9 Jan 2016, at 7:33 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> Now I'm super-confused: if we already have everything we need for
 >> FastCGI under Apache, what's all the fuss about?
 >
 > Isn’t it you making the fuss ;-)

I seem to be in good company, since FastCGI is something you and Todd 
and Andre and many others have expressed an interest in.

I enjoy using LC for workgroup solutions where concurrency needs are 
very modest, but for any potentially-successful public system we need 
scalability beyond what CGI can provide.

If this is too hard to do I suppose we can recommend folks use PHP for 
FastCGI and CPython for socket servers.  I'd just prefer to work in LC 
if possible.


 > We don’t actually have everything. Someone either needs to implement
 > the FastCGI protocol in script or create an engine that uses libfcgi
 > to give us a fast cgi main loop.

Historically, the many discussions about FastCGI support here and 
elsewhere in the LC community over the years have come down to issue 
handling concurrency.  Since so much of LC is made of blocking commands, 
handling of any single connection would in many cases lock up handling 
of all others.

I'm fine with writing some code so the main process hands off tasks to 
workers.  The issue I've run into is that I've found no way to hand the 
socket connection to the worker.

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