Mark wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
>> In 2.0.0, if there are heirarchical packages, and Apache2::Reload is
>> configured to reload the 'parent', it blows away the 'children' package
>> namespaces (and doesn't reload the children.) For example, if @INC has:
>>
>> Fubar.pm
>> Fubar/Child.pm
>>
>> And Apache2::Reload reloads package Fubar, it blows away
>> Fubar::Child::* and only reloads file Fubar.pm. Only a server
>> restart can recover from this point.
>>
>> The actual unloading work is done by ModPerl::Util::unload_package(),
>> whose behavior is contrary to the docs, which say:
>>
>> "unload_package()" takes care to leave sub-stashes intact while
>> deleting the requested stash. So for example if "CGI" and "CGI::Carp"
>> are loaded, calling "unload_package('CGI')" won't affect "CGI::Carp".This is clearly a bug. >> I only partly understand how unload_package() works, but it seems to >> just iterate over symbols in the package and blow them away, without >> regard for the actual file from which the symbol was instantiated. Yup, it's that simple and there is a slightly smarter version in XS that does check the source of the symbols from. >> I tried modifying the code to skip over symbols that correspond >> to a key in %INC, which seems logical and works correctly in my tests, >> but may not be a complete or perfect solution for reasons beyond >> my current testing/thinking. However, in my tests, it works correctly >> if either the parent package, child package, or both are modified. >> >> Comments/suggestions about the correctness of this patch requested. > > Correction. Ignore previous patch. It only worked one level of > heirarchy. Correct patch is: Much simpler patch to just skip stashes has been checked in in rev 179448. If you can try latest-svn and confirm your problem goes away, that would be fantastic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe M. Chiasson m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ GPG KeyID : 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107 88C3A5A5
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