On 11/12/2010 12:47 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > Hi, > > it is common procedure for modules to detect the first configuration > run at httpd startup by looking for some userdata in the process pool. > If the userdata is not set, they set it and then skip some > initialization that should not be done during the first config run. > > But this logic is broken: If a LoadModule statement is added while > httpd is running, and httpd is then gracefully restarted, the module > will be loaded but assume that this is the startup configuration > phase. It won't initialize itself fully and will work correctly only > after the second graceful restart. This can be very confusing for > users.
That's why you would generally add a pool datum to the process->pool, which survives module unload/reload.
