Re: How to spawn a fastcgi process in windows natively?

Right in the bottom of your sign off you have "Feel the power of open
source" and "Feel the power of "Free Pascal".

 

Sounds like you may already have the tools you need! Free Pascal kicks butt
- and on Win32 the TThread class is purported to work the same way on Linux
and Win32 platforms. Additionally, (look on
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org <http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/> ) for
a direct APACHE Module header translation - allowing DIRECT (to apache
anyways) access to the apache API.

 

I have also heard of Fast CGI Free Pascal implementations. I have not delved
in this arena my self yet - but there may be something for you right there
:-)

 

Additionally, for portability reasons - and the fact that I don't expect 100
simultaneous requests per second or anything - have adopted a CGI thin
Client Client/server architecture - that basically is a very lean 30k on
win32 compressed exe, 50-100k for various implementations (uncompressed)
binary CGI executables - that get all the CGI info, and using a form of
interprocess communication, I pass the info to a "server" or Daemon - that
handles the processing, and then it uses IPC to hand the info back to the
CGI thin client, which in turn sends out the results, and terminates.

 

I've done all that in Free Pascal. 

 

Feel The Power? Of Free Pascal? Oh yeah ;)

Have a great Day all!

Jason P Sage

 

 

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Subject: [FASTCGI] How to spawn a fastcgi process in windows natively?

 

Hello,

We're making a small http server which has fastcgi support (mainly for php
for now).

I've made a FastCGI "spawner" function which works in unix with
fork/dup/socketstuff.

The problem I have now is that I can't figure out how to do this in windows?


I need a native (winapi, no cygwin or such) solution.

I've found out CreateProcess which can send environment variables and
inherit handles to the "child" in windows, but it can't continue to execute
my code (so I can't start to listen for UDP on handle 0) 

The only way I come to think of is to first make a "helper" program which
will act as a "child". Then from our server execute the program which will
do the Listen stuff, and then CreateProcess into PHP or whatever. 

This is however troublesome to watch from the server (eg: the status of the
final "child")

How can I directly (eg: right from the server) spawn a fcgi process?


Thanks,

Ales Katona
-- 
Feel the power of Opensource.
Feel the power of Free Pascal.

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