From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-04T17:42:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27420] Re: Multithreading and cgi.rb

At Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:58:16 +0900,
Harry Ohlsen <harryo@zipworld.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

You can make new CGI subclass and override methods; env_table,
stdinput and stdoutput.  They're defaulted to return ENV,
$stdin and $> respectively.

Nobu Nakada