Hi I didn't get a response for my first post :-( So I'm making another try (Sorry for cross-posting - but I guess it's relevant to dev list as well)
PerlFreshRestart (is anyone using this feature ?) was giving me a lot of problems giving a lot of 'Undefined Subroutine' errors when I restart (USR1) httpd. I found that it's due to a bug in mod_perl (perl_util.c - perl_reload_inc()). ie. the following seems to be wrong: while (($k, $v) = each(%INC)) { delete($INC{$k}); eval("require $k"); } When you do a require $k, any further 'use' or 'require' in $k will not be loaded, since they are already loaded as per %INC. However that's not the case, since I've used Apache::Symbol to undefine all those (otherwise I'd get a Subroutine redefined error) in PerlRestartHandler. mod_perl-1.19 seems to implement it correctly - but that part of the code was removed in later versions - Any idea why ? ie. there was this line GvHV(incgv) = Nullhv; in perl_util.c (perl_reload_inc), but was removed on later versions. So basically I reintroduced this line to the current version (mod_perl-1.26) & the problems are gone. Can this patch go into the next version ? I guess this is the reason for so many 'Evil things' happening if Restart was on ? I'd like to get some comments before I put this change to production. Expecting a reply this time Thanx Sreeji __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com