Oh, yes, that's one thing in
that post which I didn't set right - the "primitive
process management facility" is quite complete, actually.
As you say, fastcgi can be used to run a perl program as standalone server (e.g. apache directive FastCgiServer filename options) or pretty much like mod_perl, as multiple instances controlled by the process manager (dynamic mode, new processes are spawned as necesary up to a confiurable maximum).
--shmem
_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ /
/\_¯/(q /
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");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}