You can use Perl's IPC::Shareable to share objects in memory across
processes:
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/IPC-Shareable/IPC/Shareable.html
Good luck,
Brian B.
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To: Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Spawning
>
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> >I would always seperate any proccess that are not web request orientated
> >outside the request architecture - i.e write your own daemon / crond
> >script thats does this exterior processing.
>
> I totally agree. That's the plan but I need the Apache connection for the
> external processing
>
> >What do you need to access apache internals for ?
>
> I have an object(package) that can only have one instance running. That
> object is currently created by startup.pl. I need to access that instance
> from apache modules
> AND the external script.
>
> >Starting something on startup is just a question of adding the required
> >lines to the server startup script.
>
> Yup, I did that and it works fine. Just need to make that connection. I
> don't think calling system(...) in startup.pl and setsid() in the script
> would help because that would just start up another perl session
> disconnected from Apache... am I right? I am unfortunately not too
familiar
> with the intricacies of the Perl/Apache connection.
> Atli.
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