Re: [Webware-discuss] cgi wrapper enhancement, take 2

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

>One question I have is how to determine which ports are available
>if there is no global list of available ports in the filesystem.
>Maybe this is straightforward socket code -- I'll have to experiment a bit.

Seems like this would have to be configurable. The admin might want to 
setup a range of valid ports, like 9000-9050, so as to not interfere with 
other known apps. You could go through the ports round robin fashion, but 
be careful not to use one still be used by a dying app server.

Since starting a new app server is a rare event, reading a config file for 
it is no big deal.


>Also, I may need file locking or a mutex around the reading and writing
>of address.text to avoid having multiple simultaneous CGI adaptor requests
>start up multiple appservers.

Sounds right.

Regarding your earlier comment about performance on Windows, if that's an 
issue for you, were you leaning towards:
         a. C adapter code base
         b. lightweight adapters and a middle, dispatcher process in Python
         c. ack! heavyweight adapters in both C and Python that duplicate 
each other's functionality.

         ?

-Chuck