[hunchentoot-devel] spawning threads

In quux-hunchentoot, I introduce a gf

(defgeneric start-thread (context thunk &key))

with a method

(defmethod start-thread ((taskmaster thread-pooling-taskmaster) thunk &key name) (declare (ignorable taskmaster)) (bt:make-thread thunk :name name))

that offers an extension point so that applications can specify bindings, handlers, etc., around the spawning of threads.

I believe this technique could be advantageously adopted by hunchentoot in general.

PS: if this reminds you of "interface-passing style", that's not a coincidence.

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