Synchronizing CGI processes?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <HzrF5.29559$oN2.823253 at news20.bellglobal.com>,
Olivier Dagenais <olivierS.dagenaisP at canadaA.comM> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a question: does your
>> service permit you to run a stand-alone process?  If so, make that a
>> socket-based database server.  This would also make your code run
>> generally faster.
>
>As far as I know, I don't think so.  I guess it won't hurt to ask them!
>(I'm using http://free.prohosting.com in case someone here would already
>know???)  You say "socket-based database server".  What do you mean?  That
>the said server would only be accessed by the running CGI processes or
>should I rather make it the full server?

The former.  Basically, each time one of the CGI processes wants to do a
database access, it "makes a call" to the other server.  asyncore will
probably do what you want here.
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