On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:59:13PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Can someone please explain why Apache does all the dlclosing and
> dlopening of shared files on startup and a restart? I can think of no
> reson why this would ever be necessary - why on earth is it done?
>
> Alan Burlison
>
Probably the biggest reason for dlopen/dlclose on a restart is that the
list of modules in the config file can change on a restart. The reason
for the reload on startup has something to do with parsing the config
file in the parent and child; it was never adequately explained to me.
The trick would be getting it not to do this without busting up the
module API, which I can actually think of a few ways to do, and in a
way that the Apache Group didn't rigorously object to :)
Dan
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