On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:03:31 +0100, Henrik Nordström <[email protected]> wrote: > mån 2010-02-22 klockan 11:44 +1100 skrev Robert Collins: > >> command protocol for it would be pretty similar to the SHM disk IO >> helper, but for processes. Something like: >> squid->helper: spawn stderrfd argv(escaped/encoded to be line & NULLZ >> string safe) >> helper->squid: pid, stdinfd, stdoutfd > > Which requires UNIX domain sockets for fd passing, and unknown > implementation on Windows.. > >> This would permit several interesting things: >> - starting helpers would no longer need massive VM overhead >> - we won't need to worry about vfork, at least for a while >> - starting helpers can be really async from squid core processing (at >> the moment everything gets synchronised) > > Yes. > > +1 in general, with the reservation that I want to hear back from Guido > on what options there may be on Windows platform.
+1 with same reservations. Amos
