persistant web state

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jay> I'm lloking for a technique to allow me to keep memory alive
    Jay> between invocations of a cgi program.  What I mean is that if I
    Jay> have two cgi requests come into a script, they should be able to
    Jay> access the same data in memory and not have to load from a
    Jay> database.

Why not have a long-running process manage a shared memory segment using
mmap?  Your CGI processes could then attach to that segment.  

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