fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....
Subject: fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 08:45:56 -0400
>>>>> "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