That would be a great addition, although I confess I am highly dependent on the "finish what you are doing and move on to the next step" model, or single threading as the less tech savy might call it. ;-)
Bob S > On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:03 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > I'm just far enough into Robert Love's "Linux System Programming" that I > think the solution to FastCGI may be much simpler than I'd previously thought. > > I think we need a new command that launches a specified process but in a way > that uses a call to "fork" to pass file descriptors (which include sockets > and other I/O info) to the child process. > > In many ways it would work very similarly to the existing "open process", but > allow params to give the child process access to things like socket > connections, pipes, files, etc. the parent process has access to at the time > the child process is launched. > > It would seem least intrusive on the code base to implement it as a new > command, perhaps called "fork". > > That said, I have to admit the risk of Dunning-Kruger effect here: I'm not > that far into the book, and my knowledge in this area is far below my > aspirations. > > But for those of you more familiar with Linux system programming, do I > misunderstand the difficulty involved? > > Forking seems so common in other tools, and not having it appears to be the > one detail standing between where we are now and having not just FastCGI, but > also being able to build truly excellent application servers on par with > Node.js and other similar systems. > > LiveCode is a great language, and if we had the ability to fork we should be > able to build a wide range of powerful, scalable, efficient systems, breaking > far beyond the limitations of CGI we're limited to now. > > If all we need is a new command to wrap the Linux "fork" call, after I finish > Love's book I may brush up on my C skills and give it a go. > > But who wants to wait for that. Is there anyone in our community who could > do this now? > > Do I misunderstand what's needed here? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
