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[John at D. <jo...@de...>]

I was talking to Christian Werner about how to have undroidwish work well with Naviserver, allowing Tcl scripts to run in undroidwish, and return their results to a calling Naviserver page.  Why do this? Perhaps undroidwish loads libraries that are not (easily) available under naviserver?  

I think the best way is to have a naviserver module that implements a “worker pool of processes”.  The module would launch X numbers of this external process (say, undroidwish), controlled via STDOUT/STDIN, and dispatch requests free members of the pool, returning the result to the caller.  This would be an efficient way to have slow-loading Unix processes brought into Naviserver efficiently.

For some reason, I imagined that this feature existed already, years ago, but I can’t find a mention of it.  Certainly, there is a lot in Naviserver that resembles this idea already.

-john