> > Log: > > The pre_mpm hook creates server-lifetime objects (or at least, for > the > > generations across graceful restarts.) They should use the process > pool. > > The pre_mpm hook doesn't seem generically useful. It seems to be tied > to our current idea of how the scoreboard should be managed.
The per_mpm phase was originally written to provide a place to create shared memory that the server can use. Because our best map to how shared memory should work is the scoreboard, that is how the hook was implemented. Ryan