From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
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Subject: Making CGI "unbuffered"
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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 15:43:14 -0800 (PST)
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	From Mark Brown's suggestions I realized that the only thing
one really needs to do is make the reads from the CGI non-blocking.
I've patched up stuff so that this is doable. The patches aren't quite
clean yet, but I was wondering if people think I did "the right thing"
and could offer suggestions about better ways to do things.

	1) I modified spawn_child, and created a new spawn_child_buff,
which makes script_in and script_out BUFF *, rather than FILE
*.. would it be a good idea to change the spawn_child API to take
BUFF, or is the new function the better idea? It seems cleaner to
change the API to use BUFF *, but that would break old modules.

	2) I modified other things to appropriately deal with the fact
that those two things are BUFF * rather than FILE *.

	3) I created send_fb, which is similar to send_fd, except it
takes a BUFF * rather than a FILE *. send_fb clears out the existing
read buffer from the BUFF * and then makes the fd nonblocking, and
enters a select/read loop to get all the data out of it.

	I'll send a patch along in my next email. (I'm not submitting
this patch for review/commit, it needs work, and it is against 1.1.1,
not 1.2dev. I'm just submitting it for review)

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