Re: Why does Apache do this braindamaged dlclose/dlopen stuff?

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "AB" == Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

AB> To summarise:  Apache dlclose's the mod_perl.so, which then results in
AB> the perl libperl.so being unloaded as well (there's a linker dependency

Excellent summary... thanks!

AB> from mod_perl -> perl libperl.so).  Unfortunately the perl XS modules
AB> loaded in during startup via dlopen are *not* unloaded, nor do they
AB> succeed in locking the perl libperl.so into memory (you could construe
AB> this as a linker bug).  Then Apache reloads the mod_perl libperl.so,

I think the linker is in error here for not adding the dependency on
the library and that is what should be fixed...