Module caching
Hello all, I am working on a large modperl app, and one of the features of this is a plugin system that allows others to write and install modules. Everything is good as far as this goes, but the problem is updateing/deleting modules. It seems as though the code is cached until an apache restart (i.e code changes don't take effect, version numbers don't change). Is there a way to flush the INC hash of all the children programmatically, without a restart? I have looked at Apache::Reload and Apache::StatINC and tried to replicate the code, but it doesn't seem to be working. Thanks, Scott
Re: Module caching
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:42, Scott wrote: I have looked at Apache::Reload and Apache::StatINC And what was wrong with them? You should know that there is no perfect way to reload a Perl module. It just isn't a feature of the language. Those two modules come as close as you can get without actually starting a new interpreter, but it is still possible for some code (especially code using closures) to interact badly with them. - Perrin
Re: Module caching
Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I am working on a large modperl app, and one of the features of this is a plugin system that allows others to write and install modules. Everything is good as far as this goes, but the problem is updateing/deleting modules. It seems as though the code is cached until an apache restart (i.e code changes don't take effect, version numbers don't change). Is there a way to flush the INC hash of all the children programmatically, without a restart? I have looked at Apache::Reload and Apache::StatINC and tried to replicate the code, but it doesn't seem to be working. The best thing I happened to meet here: - apache compiled with mod_perl as DSO (for instance debian linux version) - graceful restart which is invisible for the clients but reloads perl interpreter when mod_perl is DSO
