cgi concurrency approaches?

[Matt Goodall]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:04, Rene Pijlman wrote:
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>:
> >I'm wondering if folks here have favorite lightweight ways of dealing
> >with concurrency in cgi's.  Take a simple case:
> >
> >You want to write a cgi that implements a simple counter.  The first
> >time it's called, it prints "1".  The next time, "2", etc.
> [...]
> >Anyone have some simpler approaches?
> 
> Use mod_python and keep the counter in a Python variable (if the value
> needs not be persistent).
> http://www.modpython.org/

That will only work if you use Apache 2 in threaded mode. Apache 1  and
Apache 2 in forking mode (multiple processes) will have a copy of the
counter object per-process.

Cheers, Matt

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