Brian Adkins  <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
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| Marc Battyani wrote:
| > As for "industrial strength", today cl-user.net has an uptime of 456 days, 
| > has served 130306440 requests so far and it's still the same Lispworks 
| > process since the beginning. The other applications all have a similar 
| > uptime.
| 
| So have you modified the code during the 456 days? If so, can you 
| enlighten me a bit. Did you connect to the running Lispworks process 
| from another machine? Very curious.
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Not sure how Marc does it, but on the machines I support that
are running CMUCL-based application servers (behind Apache), the
application server has a REPL listener pending on a Unix-domain
socket (a.k.a. local-domain a.k.a. AF_POSIX). Then I just SSH to
the server host, and once there I Telnet[1] to the REPL socket,
which is protected by both filesystem permissions and a password.
Then I can look at stats, LOAD new versions of functions, etc.


-Rob

[1] Recent BSD-derived "Telnet" supports connecting to Unix-domain
    sockets ["telnet /foo/bar"], though Linux doesn't seem to have
    picked that up yet. On Linux servers I just use Dan Barlow's
    "detachtty/attachtty" on the actual top-level REPL. Same thing.

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