Re: Question on QTEMP and CGI Jobs

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not an answer for you, but I am curious?  Why this solution instead of a 
cookie on the client?


On 3/3/2017 11:57 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> We have an interesting scenario where a CGI job is using a data area in QTEMP for a temp value in a web app and there appears to be a random issue where that value gets clobbered by another job. (At least that's what we think is happening.)
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> My understanding is that each CGI call is synchronous and each thread/program active job instance has its own copy of QTEMP library so one call on a particular CGI job thread would have to complete before it can be re-used by another call.  Or if there is only 1 CGI thread/job subsequent calls will block until the executing call has completed.
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> Is my understanding of this correct ?
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> Would there be any way for two CGI calls at the same time to overlap the QTEMP libs ?
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> Hope this makes sense.
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> Any thoughts appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> Regards,
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