[hunchentoot-devel] Hunchentoot Thread Safety

[Nico de Jager]

Hi

Mostafa Razavi <hom.sepanta at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi. I've been thinking about Hunchentoot's thread safety, lately. I
> see that for each request Hunchentoot spawns a new thread (if
> possible, of course) and binds the special variable *request* for
> it. Initially I thought this could cause problems, but when I did a
> few tests I found out everything actually seems to work correctly.
>
> Now, I'm not complaining why things are not going wrong, only I'm
> curious how is it that using a dynamic variable, which is one of those
> dreaded global variables after all, does not cause problems here.
Also see http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html, footnote 11 and the applicable text.

Nico

>
> You might point out I can find it out all by myself by reading the
> source code, but unfortunately I couldn't. Maybe I'm missing
> something. Can anyone here, please, point me to the answer? Thanks.
>
> Hom
> _______________________________________________
> tbnl-devel site list
> tbnl-devel at common-lisp.net
> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/tbnl-devel