fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....



>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:

    Robert> Hi Gerd,

    >> Actually, it does take a long time. I did some experimenting for LON-
    >> CAPA, also for assessment purposes, and given the workloads we
    >> regularly deal with, the one-process-per-request method is prohibitive.

    Robert> Well, I wonder if some/any varieties of Lisp support POSIX fork.

CMUCL has unix:unix-fork.  SBCL has something similar, I think.

Ray