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

[Gerald Richter]

>
> Yes and no. If XS libraries are written with OO-style wrappers (which,
IMHO,
> they always should be), then surely you can catch the unloading in a
DESTROY
> sub and use that to do the deallocation of resources? Perl can only manage
> Perl resources, and extension resources should be the responsibility of
the
> the programmer.
>
That's why Doug wrote we need the perl_destruct/perl_free addtionaly to the
dlclose. These two routines will take care of the Perlpart destruction, i.e.
call the DESTROYs

GErald