HTTP server and background processing

Rabbit
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I want to overlap web server processing with some background tasks responsible for maintaining the data that the server displays. How do I do it ? The server’s main loop (http_handler()) is a blocking call that doesn’t seem to permit any background task.

I tried putting the bulk of http server’s main loop inside a ‘slice()’ call so the background processing could pre-empt it but the compiler tells me dcrtcp and slice calls cannot be used in the same program.

Is my only option to hack the internals of http_handler() so its idle time can be used for background processing ?

thanks in advance for any help.

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I got an answer from Rabbit email support. For those interested, the way to do this is:

while(1) {
costate {
http_handler();
}
costate {
waitfor();

}
}