From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-08T23:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: DRB and threads

Another minor patch: redirect stderr down the FastCGI pipe.

    def each (*args)
      #install_traps can be called by the user first
      while request = accept
        handle_request {
          $stderr = request.err    # and $stdout to request.out ?
          yield(CGI.new(request, *args))
          $stderr = STDERR
          request.finish
        }
        break if @@exit_requested
      end
    end

This gives more informative logs, and also in principle should work if the
FastCGI app is external. [Not sure how you'd set that up though; you'd need
a program which binds FD 0 to a listening socket, or manages a pool of
processes like Apache does]

If Moonwolf is around: how about making FCGX_IsCGI available from Ruby (and
an equivalent function in the pure Ruby version)? Then we could do:

    def each_cgi(*args)
      if iscgi?
        return yield ::CGI.new(*args)
      end
      # ahowards's loop as above
    end

That would let FCGI programs work as normal standalone CGI _and_ as FCGI
without any modifications :-)

Regards,

Brian.