I understand BIND_NOSTART has been in the code since it was first checked into apache 1.3. I also understand the desire not to break existing functionality. I can tell you that BIND_NOSTART prevents any C++ module developer from being able to take advantage of static initialization. I'd be more than happy to leave that code be if I had a definative way to enable dlopen instead of shl_load.
-N -----Original Message----- From: Joe Orton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:01 AM To: dev@apr.apache.org; dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPUX static's and Mixing C with C++ modules Hi, On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:23:09PM -0500, Arliss, Noah wrote: > I'll try to clarify things as best I can. First off, BIND_VERBOSE would be > fantastic. I had to add it in order to get my module to load at all with > shl_load, even though it still would not function. If there was a good > reason to remove BIND_VERBOSE that history would be nice to have. The > shl_load call would look better as: BIND_VERBOSE means the library writes error message to whatever file you happen to have open as fd 2 - which is unacceptable for a library. (the app may have closed stderr and be using fd 2 for something completely different). You get exactly the same error string back via apr_dso_error() anyway, which is the defined interface for retrieving the error string. Changing the call to: > + shl_t os_handle = shl_load(path, BIND_IMMEDIATE, 0L); seems fine to me, FWIW, but as Will says, the BIND_NOSTART has been there since the code was first checked into Apache 1.3, so there may be some subtle reason why it's needed. Regards, joe
