Re: Prestart Jobs for speeding up TCP/IP servers

<< Okay. Now comes the interesting question: There is no fork() call in IBM
i. How exactly is this "forking" done?>>
The C programming language has a multi-threading library which is why I use
C. I can "fork" a new thread to handle a conversation. <<My opinion only
but I think you have to be crazy to use multi-threading in RPG. Just asking
for it and so incredibly heavy>>

Please note that the same thing can be done in RPG by transferring to a
pre-start job. There are different ways of skinning the same cat. In C, you
fork a new thread to handle the conversation. In RPG, you switch to a
pre-start job.

Pre-start jobs are just a way to start one to many jobs and have them
waiting in a suspended state. They are part of the subsystem description.
The operating system provides function calls that allow me to activate and
switch processing to one of these pre-start jobs. Because the job is
already running, it starts almost instantaneously. All of this stuff is C
api's. If I am programming in C, I use the api directly. If RPG, I have
written service programs that wrap this stuff up.


On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 1:55 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Alan,

Am 26.10.2021 um 16:06 schrieb Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>:

No, that is not how socket servers work. The socket server is just

sitting and listening for connection requests. When it gets one it forks a
new process.

Okay. Now comes the interesting question: There is no fork() call in IBM
i. How exactly is this "forking" done?

That process receives the request and then spawns a new job to do the

processing. That job is a pre-start job so it can start instantaneously.

You mean, it can *run* instantaneously, yes? What are the important bits
of the innards of a PJ program? I did not find information about that yet.
What triggers it to run instead just lingering around activated (by the
SBS?)? What needs to be done to make it go back to
activated-but-finished-with-work state? Especially in hindsight on C being
used.

Thanks!

:wq! PoC

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