Re: DynaLoader/MakeMaker problem? - Apache::ASP: crash when placed in startup.pl

[Matt Sergeant]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> I think we have a strong case for:
> 
> a) Requesting that MakeMaker adds a dependency between the .so files it
> generates and the perl libperl.so
> 
> b) Requesting that a 'remove a module' method is added to DynaLoader

Option b would be very useful for mod_perl because you could remove modules
used at startup, but not needed throughout the use of the system. For
example, say in your <Perl> section you want to parse an XML config file
that changes your httpd configuration somehow. So you load in XML::Parser.
But now you've got XML::Parser in each of your child procs that you
don't need and can't unload. Being able to call
DynaLoader::RemoveFromMemory(XML::Parser) would be ideal (yes, it could be
dangerous - so are most power tools).

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