Mojo::Server::Prefork alternative for Windows

[Thomas Kratz]

Hi,

I have created a Mojo::Server::Threaded to be mainly usable in Windows

environments where Mojo::Server::Prefork is not available. I just started with Mojo::Server::Prefork

and exchanged the fork and pipe with threads and queues. The changes are not that extensive.  

A proof of concept is running nicely so far, but I had to make two small changes to

Mojo::Server::Daemon and Mojo::IOLoop::Server because Windows threads have to reopen

the socket from the file descriptor of the first listener.

The purpose of the changes is to add a new attribute (e.g. 'use_fd') to Mojo::Server::Daemon

that will be passed as argument to listen() in Mojo::IOLoop::Server. Creating the socket from

the file descriptor is already implemented for the 'reuse' functionality, so that was trivial.

Before I invest more work into that, it would be good to know whether this is something that

could be integrated in future releases. Otherwise this would be futile.

The goal is to either have a working hypnotoad under windows or to have an

alternative for that. Since the interface is identical this could be a dropin replacement for 

Mojo::Server::Prefork.  

Thomas

      

[sri]

Before I invest more work into that, it would be good to know whether this is something that

could be integrated in future releases. Otherwise this would be futile.

That question is usually better answered on IRC, here you might have to wait some time to

get feedback. Personally, i don't have time to look into this right now, but i can tell you that

Hypnotoad already works on windows with WSL.

    http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/FAQ#How-well-is-Windows-supported-by-Mojolicious

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sebastian

[Kmx]

Couple of years ago I have tried something similar.

You might be interested in looking at https://github.com/kmx/mojo-server-metyl

It will definitely not work with current Mojolicious (it was Mojolicious-3.x era at that time).

--kmx