From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-03T14:17:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11922] Re: problem with threads and fastcgi

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11918] problem with threads and fastcgi"
    on 01/03/03, Brad Hilton <bhilton@vpop.net> writes:

|I am using the ruby module for fastcgi (available via the cvs repository 
|under lib/fcgi/) with threads and am having some strange results.  This may 
|be because fcgi is not thread-safe (I notice that ENV and stdout are treated 
|as globals which wouldn't work in a threaded cgi setup), but the problems 
|appear to be unrelated to this.

fcgi is not thread-safe.  Unlike other IO facilities, it does not try to
avoid IO blocking.  I'll make fcgi thread-safe soon (or I hope someone
voluneer to update it).

							matz.