[ic] Running Interchange 5 with Plack

[Jon Jensen]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Sam Batschelet wrote:

>> I'm really surprised that Plack will work with a compiled C binary. 
>> You're positive you weren't somehow running the Perl vlink.pl instead? 
>> If they're in the same directory I would be suspicious that 
>> Plack::App::CGIBin is getting fancy inferring the .pl suffix or 
>> something.
>
> Yes this does seem amazing, to confirm I added the strace output to my 
> gist for review.
>
> https://gist.github.com/sbatschelet/69550995a42795d6ab9e#file-trace-txt

Uh, that looks actually much weirder than I expected: It appears to be 
loading the complete Interchange daemon as a CGI, but keeping it running 
because of course the Interchange daemon doesn't die after each request. I 
have no idea how it's getting the request data in and the response data 
out, since Interchange does that through a socket with the link program. 
Some intense magic going on there.

Jon


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