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Re: usefulness of scsh for web CGIs

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: usefulness of scsh for web CGIs
From: Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>
Date: 20 May 1996 14:04:19 +0200
Organization: Uni Tuebingen
>>>>> "Chris" == cbitmead  <cbitmead@versant.versant.com.au> writes:

    Chris> In article <4ndvc9$dlo@alpha.pcix.com> jbell@capecod.net
    Chris> (Janet Bell) writes: I don't know much about cgi
    Chris> programing. Do you have to run a separate script for every
    Chris> access?

    Chris> Until the scheme48 implementation is improved, 1.4 Meg has
    Chris> to be loaded on every invocation. If this is buffered in
    Chris> memory due to frequent access, then maybe it's not too bad,
    Chris> but I suspect it's going to be a bit too slow for you.

Of course you can make a scsh server. The actual cgibins would then be small
C programms that just pass their argv and env to the scsh server. The server
would just fork a new scsh to do the job. In the future the scshserver could
even just fork a thread. The possibility to pass file descriptors to scsh
(not yet possible) would make the whole thing trivial.

 - hannes

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