In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Stan Sieler  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I've duplicated the CGI "lost data" problem that some people have
>reported recently.  Here's some comments/observations.
>
>   1) When transferring large amounts of data, sometimes the transfer
>      is interrupted after a portion is sent
>      (typically 32KB, but sometimes 16KB)

I wonder if this might not really be an underlying Streams/iX problem.

I believe Streams is the transport between the CGI program and the web server.
Streams is also involved for Posix pipes (i.e. "|").

On my 969KS200, Posix pipes are rather sadly defective.  I can experience
process hangs with no output, process terminations after partial output
(sounds like Stan's problem), or even system crashes.  The effect varies;
fail once, run it again and it will work.  Sigh.  One particular pipe
in a batch job was crashing so regularly that I had to remove it.  A dump
was mailed and an SR was entered and of course I never heard anything back
about it.  I am still on 5.0 here.
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