Re: Starting a Task and Immediately Returning

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Maciej Sobczak a �crit :
> On 14 Lis, 14:26, Graham Stark <graham.st...@virtual-worlds.biz>

>> But,
>> obviously, you can't wait 10 minutes to reply to a web request.
> 
> Then you need a task that will exist independently on Web_Callback.
> Make such a task (or even a whole bunch of them if that makes sense
> for this particular server) at the library level, which will give them
> independence on any scope. Add some facility for communicating to this
> task the description of what needs to be done (the "job") - for this
> you can use rendezvous or (better) job queue(s).
Or more simply, create the task with an allocator (new). The tricky 
thing will be to deallocate the tasks' space after it is terminated. Web 
server are generally expected to run 24/7, so no memory leak allowed...
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