From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T17:58:27+09:00
Subject: Re: fastcgi & continuations (Re: Idea: Webshare)

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:55:55AM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> From what I know of ruby, I think at_exit firing once is a 'bug', even 
> if it doesn't core dump.  I hit this bug while trying matz's fastcgi 
> trick [ruby-talk:13428].  In that example, continuations are used to 
> invisibly create a loop in plain cgi script.  This allows the script to 
> become a persistent fastcgi process.

That code is a nasty frig though, when you could just replace

  cgi = CGI::Fast.new

with

  FCGI.each_cgi do |cgi|
    ...
  end

Furthermore, the code then runs transparently in three different ways: as a
regular CGI, as a FastCGI, or from the command-line (enter name=value pairs)

Regards,

Brian.