From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T21:01:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27181] Re: Multithreading and cgi.rb

Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> I've written a small multi-threaded message board server.
> 
> I originally tried to use cgi.rb, because I thought that made sense,
> but hit problems because it assumes input is from $stdin and output is to
> $stdout.  Obviously, since I can have multiple threads running, I
> couldn't just assign the socket for a connection to $stdin and $stdout,
> since then I'd get intermingled I/O and everything would fall in a heap.

Do you want multiple connections, i.e. handling multiple requests within
one CGI application? This is impossible with CGI. 

Have a look at FastCGI.

Regards,

  Michael

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