$Id: README,v 1.6 2001/04/23 16:07:16 muaddie Exp $

General Information
-------------------

FCGI-ProcManager is a process manager for FCGI.  By implementing the
process manager in perl, we can more finely tune FastCGI performance, and 
we can take CPU and memory advantages of fast forks and copy-on-write UNIX
process management characteristics.


Installation
------------

FCGI-ProcManager is expected to compile and run on all systems which
support normal UNIX fork/wait semantics.  FCGI-ProcManager is known to
compile and run on the following systems:

 - Linux (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x)
 - Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7)
 - Digital UNIX 4.0
 - NetBSD 1.4

Full installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file.
To build,

  perl Makefile.PL
  make all
  make install

Usage
-----
In order to use this process manager, you should create a FCGI::ProcManager
object, configure it, call its pm_manage() method.   Then, you'll want to
call its pm_pre_dispatch() method at the top of your request loop, and then
pm_post_dispatch() at the bottom of your request loop.  Consult
FCGI::ProcManager documentation for more detail.  (perldoc ./ProcManager.pm)


Copyright
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Copyright (c) 2000, FundsXpress Financial Network, Inc.


Disclaimer
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This library is free software released "AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS"
and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License, Version 2.1, a copy of which can be
found in the "COPYING" file of this distribution.

Maintainer
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Gareth Kirwan <gbjk@thermeon.com>

Author
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James Jurach <muaddib@erf.net>