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[Martin Pool]

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At 00:15 18/08/99 +1000, Jason wrote:

>In the same vein, people running apache on single-user workstations
>(to serve files, for example) might want to use boa instead; zsh can
>be a nifty replacement for bash; rxvt takes less memory than xterm (or
>*shudder* eterm); and so on.

boa's very slick, but be aware that it doesn't quite implement the CGI
interface[0] the same way Apache does, and so some scripts will break.  I
forget the details, but some environment variables are not set --
SCRIPT_NAME may be one.  It needs a little patch sometime.

Non-forking servers are a really interesting idea, and there's a lot of
research on how to make them perform really well.  Consider for example
that poll and select scan linear arrays of file descriptors, and so are not
very scalable for large numbers of descriptors, so people are thinking
about a new interface.

--
Martin

[0]That would be the "Common Gateway Interface interface" for pedants.

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