Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI app held open

2006-11-22 Thread Nathan Kellogg
I see your point on the performance hit of unloading it on each request. But, while I'm in development it is a real pain to restart apache every time I modify the ap. Is there a way to have apache let go when the app exits or to force it to let go from the command line? At 04:47 PM

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI app held open

2006-11-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
You could patch it to watch the refcount drop to zero. Since httpd only supports isapi to ease use and migration to httpd - it was never really a 'development platform' for isapi - the hack to throw away the now-unused .dll is left as an exercise to the reader. Nathan Kellogg wrote: I see your

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI app held open

2006-11-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Nathan Kellogg wrote: We are debugging a CGI app ( mod_isapi ) running on a WINxp machine. Just so you are clear, ISAPI is not CGI - CGI describes a way to launch a program (or script, via a program) passing environment variables to describe the request, and listening to the stdout of the

[EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI app held open

2006-11-21 Thread Nathan Kellogg
We are debugging a CGI app ( mod_isapi ) running on a WINxp machine. The app executes fine but Apache retains the file handle on the app making it impossible to overwrite the old cgi app with the new one without restarting apache. Is there a way to change this behavior without