RE: A fix in sight: Apache::ASP: crash when placed in startup.pl

[Doug MacEachern]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:

> >
> > perl_destruct/perl_free are not called at restart, only during child_exit.
> > it looks like that might need to change to finish the dso puzzle.  I
> > experienced some problems there, but that was a few years ago, looks
> > like it's time to revisit.
> >
> 
> But it is called when Apache unloads the modules during startup. Therefore

not perl_destruct()/perl_free(), they are only called in mod_perl by
perl_shutdown(), during child_exit().

> my Apache on NT starts cleanly without the PERL_STARTUP_DONE_CHECK
> workaround :-) and Embperl works the first time on Unix when it's loaded at
> startup time and mod_perl is dynamicly linked. Really great!

excellent!
 
> Doug, I have the patch (with dlclose replaced with ap_os_dso_unload, as I
> posted some hours ago) here in the CVS working directory, should I commit
> it?

let's hold off for a little bit, I'd like to understand the problem better
and do some testing of my own first.