Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-07 Thread Peter Ensch
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:59, Peter Ensch wrote: OK. Thanks. Well, yes it is being reloaded whenever the form is submitted and w/out restarting the server. Here's some of the output (error_log): [Thu Jul 3 15:52:00 2003]

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:28:43PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:08, Peter B. Ensch wrote: Coding in plain CGI I've often require'd files containing data in perl data-structures. The script may write to the file (via Data::Dumper for example) allowing subsequent

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:38, Peter Ensch wrote: I'm using CGI::Application and this part of the code happens inside the cgiapp_init() method which I'm overriding: our $USERS : unique = /path/to/users.dat; sub cgiapp_init { my $self = shift; $self-param('users' = require ${\$USERS}); }

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:51:23PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:38, Peter Ensch wrote: I'm using CGI::Application and this part of the code happens inside the cgiapp_init() method which I'm overriding: our $USERS : unique = /path/to/users.dat; sub

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:16, Peter Ensch wrote: So, to reiterate, I may write to users.dat on one transaction and read on another; the file contents is always up-to-date. The file is up-to-date, or the param 'users' is? The file is. IE. it gets written and and the new stuff is

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:24:35PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:16, Peter Ensch wrote: So, to reiterate, I may write to users.dat on one transaction and read on another; the file contents is always up-to-date. The file is up-to-date, or the param 'users'

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:59, Peter Ensch wrote: OK. Thanks. Well, yes it is being reloaded whenever the form is submitted and w/out restarting the server. Here's some of the output (error_log): [Thu Jul 3 15:52:00 2003] users.dat: users.dat loaded by process 18294 at /opt/a... [Thu Jul 3

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-06-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:08, Peter B. Ensch wrote: Coding in plain CGI I've often require'd files containing data in perl data-structures. The script may write to the file (via Data::Dumper for example) allowing subsequent invokations of the script to have access to the revised data. It

require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-06-28 Thread Peter B. Ensch
Coding in plain CGI I've often require'd files containing data in perl data-structures. The script may write to the file (via Data::Dumper for example) allowing subsequent invokations of the script to have access to the revised data. I was expecting this methodology to break under mod_perl