Ben Wilder wrote:
> Thanks Philip,
>
> Your advice is very helpful.
> you can guess whats coming next... running this under Mod_perl with 8
> 'StartServers', if i perform 8 requests with a particular $packageFileName
> and then attempt a different $packageFileName, Mod_perl will tell me that
> the package does not exist, because the 8 child processes all have a
> compiled version using the first $packageFileName that i specified and
> 'required'.
2.x example:
<Location /foo>
SetHandler modperl
PerlResponseHandler FOO
</Location>
package FOO;
#core
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all'; no warnings qw(redefine);
use Carp;
#mp2
use Apache2::RequestRec ();
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);
use Apache2::Log ();
#libapreq
use APR::Request ();
use APR::Request::Apache2 ();
## Or this is already in PERL5INC some other way already
use lib qw(/path/to/lotsofpms);
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
my $req = APR::Request::Apache2->handle($r);
my $pkg = $req->param('pkg');
## VALIDATE $pkg VERY carefully for MALICOUS input!
## VALIDATE $pkg VERY carefully for MALICOUS input!
## VALIDATE $pkg VERY carefully for MALICOUS input!
## VALIDATE $pkg VERY carefully for MALICOUS input!
if (eval "require $pkg") {
## if this can fail or not exist, eval {} it
## or use UNIVERSAL::can()
$pkg->methodX(%args);
}
else {
$r->log_error("$pkg require failed\n")
}
return Apache2::Const::OK;
}
1;
Were it me, I would just have a 'use' statement for _ALL_ the files in your
startup.pl
and in this file.
BECAUSE if you serve a requests for X of the Y packages you use the memory X,
but its not shared with the 'require'
method. If you do the startup.pl/use thing, you still use the memory, but its
shared.
This also answers your question, even if the child compiles stuff it will use
the module you request everytime.
I'm guess you were using package/file scoped global vars before -- hence the
caching problem.
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