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It mean, that FCGI.pm MUST have properly implemented cleanup routine, that cleanup used resources in right way, and a public method to call this routine.

My question was - is there anybody solve this problem?

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Re^5: [FCGI.pm] - not threads-safe?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 20, 2013 at 14:30 UTC
    It mean, that FCGI.pm MUST have properly implemented cleanup routine,

    Why "MUST" it? Because you said so? It DOESN'T, and there is a good reason:

    It makes no sense to use threads with FCGI

    I'm not going to explain that. YOU need to go out and read up on FastCGI and FCGI to understand why that is so.

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      Hm, i work with FastCGI protocol and applications more than five years, and, really, don't understand, why there is no sense to use FastCGI with threads? Maybe i miss something important?

      What is the difference between threads and forked processes in this context and why use FastCGI with forks has sense but with threads - no?

      Please, explain in few words.
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        why there is no sense to use FastCGI with threads?

        Because FastCGI and FCGI have been developed to expect the forking model -- ie. separate processes with no shared state. They therefore have never been designed to be thread-safe.

        That's not to say that a FastCGI-style of operation -- persistent perl instances servicing many serial connections -- wouldn't be possible; and perhaps even effective; but it would need to be written from the ground up to understand the environment it is operating in and be thread-safe from the get-go.

        It would be a different animal with different requirements and you will not get anywhere trying to slap threads on top of FCGI.

        If you need more concurrency, start more FastCGI handler processes. That's the way it is designed to work.

        What is the difference between threads and forked processes in this context

        Sorry to put it this way, but if you do not understand that difference; you should not be using threads.

        Please, explain in few words.

        Not possible; which I why I suggested you go do some reading.

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