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

[Alan Burlison]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:03:42PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> > The current fix is to forcibly unload the perl XS modules during the
> > unload.  However, on reflection I'm not at all sure this is the correct
> > thing to do.  Although you can unload the .so component of a perl
> > module, you can't unload the .pm component, so just removing the .so
> > part as in the current workaround is suspect at least.
> 
> Remember - mod_perl is being unloaded.  Perl going away.  At this point
> perl_destruct/perl_free have already been called, and thus the .pm
> components are effectively unloaded.

Ah yes, so they are.  I still think dlclosing for no good reason sucks
though.

Alan Burlison