From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T01:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple threads on single port

On 6/6/06, Stuart Brand <stuart@server-solution.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can I use Ruby threads to have more then 1 server process running on the
> same port
>
> something like
>
> require 'socket'
> port = (ARGV[0] || 80).to_i
> server = TCPServer.new('localhost', port)
> threads = []
>
>
> 10.times do |i|
> threads[i] = Thread.new {
> while (session = server.accept)
>   puts "Request: #{session.gets}"
>   session.print "HTTP/1.1 200/OK\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
>   session.print "<html><body><h1>#{Time.now}</h1></body></html>\r\n"
>   session.close
> end
> }
> end
>
> Would this produce 10 processes that could take independent connection?

This will probably create multiple threads that accept connections. I only did
while(session = server.accept)
  Thread.new{...}
end
and it was in C. But you should be aware of the fact that depending on
the request processing you do in your thread you may not get any
thread switch until the request is handled. But at least print should
probably trigger the ruby thread scheduler.

HTH

Michal