Using screen to put CCL/HT in production as a web server

[Zach Beane]

Christoph-Simon Senjak <css at uxul.de> writes:

> Am 02.09.2013 01:04, schrieb Ron Garret:

>> I'm about to put a CCL web app (using Hunchentoot) into production.
>> Up to now I've been taking advantage of all the interactive goodness
>> that the IDE offers, but of course that will mostly go away once the
>> app is deployed.  But it occurred to me that I could use the "screen"
>> program to keep a REPL around for debugging the live app.  My
>> question is: is this a wise thing to do?  Are there potential
>> unexpected negative consequences of deploying an application this
>> way?  Security holes?  Possible crashes?  Has anyone tried this?
>> This is one set of lessons I'd rather not learn the hard way.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> rg
>>
>>
>
> On my blog (uxul.de) I did exactly this, with SBCL. However, I ran
> into the problem that if something elementary that Hunchentoot does
> not catch goes wrong (OOM, etc.), the REPL of SBCL will drop me into
> ldb, instead of just stopping (so I can restart it externally). As I
> do not know how to prevent this, I do not use the REPL anymore.

For what it's worth, you can disable it with this:

  (sb-alien:alien-funcall
    (sb-alien:extern-alien "disable_lossage_handler" (function sb-alien:void)))

You can also build a version of SBCL with ldb omitted with some
build-time configuration.

Zach