Avoid forking child processes from the main process

Caveat: this breaks piped streams.

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/types/buffersource.nim b/src/types/buffersource.nim
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+import options
+
+when defined(posix):
+  import posix
+
+import io/request
+import types/url
+
+type
+  BufferSourceType* = enum
+    CLONE, LOAD_REQUEST, LOAD_PIPE
+
+  BufferSource* = object
+    location*: URL
+    contenttype*: Option[string] # override
+    case t*: BufferSourceType
+    of CLONE:
+      clonepid*: Pid
+    of LOAD_REQUEST:
+      request*: Request
+    of LOAD_PIPE:
+      fd*: FileHandle
diff --git a/src/types/dispatcher.nim b/src/types/dispatcher.nim
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+import posix
+
+import ips/forkserver
+
+type Dispatcher* = ref object
+  forkserver*: ForkServer
+  mainproc*: Pid
+
+proc newDispatcher*(): Dispatcher =
+  new(result)
+  result.forkserver = newForkServer()
+  result.mainproc = getpid()