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implementations of CGI/1.1.

FastCGI is designed to support long-lived application processes,
i.e. <i>application servers</i>.  That's a major difference
compared with conventional Unix implementations of CGI/1.1,
which construct an application process, use
it respond to one request, and have it exit.<p>

The initial state of a FastCGI process is more spartan than the initial
state of a CGI/1.1 process, because the FastCGI process doesn't begin life
connected to anything.  It doesn't have the conventiona