Hi Henrik, > I don't know if the boss function might be of help to you? It helped > me in order for the current forked instance of the web server to be
That's right. But I'd like to point out (again) that 'boss' must be used with absolute care. It executes expressions in the parent process, but the parent process is the central coordinator for child synchronization and IPC. It should always be as responsive as possible (because otherwise all children might be slowed down or even blocked), and it should never! crash. A crashing or blocking child process, on the other hand, doesn't do any harm to the rest of the system. Therefore, I strongly recommend to do any database modifications in a child process, as is the standard setup in all PicoLisp examples. Another reason for not putting any load on the parent process is: If the parent starts to do non-trivial work, it will increase its heap size. In the following, all fork'ed child processes will inherit this heap, including possible temporary data and cached objects. It is difficult then go get a predictable behavior. In a nutshell: Keep you hands off 'boss', unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing! Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
