[plt-scheme] Re: Shared resources for servlets

Search for "async-channel" in the Help Desk.  I think this is essentially
what you want.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Keith Frost wrote:

> In the interest of answering my own question, I've built the following
> implementation of a one-writer many-reader system, using MzScheme
> channels.  It has the advantage over my original specification, that
> once a write request is sent, new readers are blocked until all write
> requests can be satisfied.
>
> Now I have many more questions.  Is there a much simpler way of doing
> this that I'm not seeing?  Or do I have the right general idea?  Now, of
> course, in a real system, I'd have to account for threads dying after
> sending requests, which adds another layer of complexity --- the server
> thread can't just block when trying to fulfill a request, so are
> channels the wrong model for fulfilling requests?  And what are those
> other waitable things, guards and so forth?  Is there a way of
> implementing the Erlang model, where messages are always sent between
> processes in non-blocking mode?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
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