On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
> Why? Some users need a control of what gets reloaded and what not on
> server start (Yes I know if you put in startup.pl file it loads only once) 
> For example parsing and loading some heavy xml files...
> 
> Why do you want to take it away?

I think PerlRestartHandler is a better solution in most cases.  and inside
<Perl> sections you can always do it on your own:

<Perl>
do_something() unless $My::Init++
</Perl>

I'm cringing at global variables in general looking forwared to threaded
2.0.  do you have a concrete example that requires
$Apache::Server::{Starting,ReStarting} ?

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