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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: Apache::PerlSection Question
From:       Stas Bekman <stas () stason ! org>
Date:       2003-10-24 21:33:49
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Stas Bekman wrote:

>> Correct - It's not really critical, but I was wondering whether there
>> was some variable set during the parsing operation that indicated what
>> was happening.  For instance, the <Perl > section sets up some proxy
>> cache entries with disk cache enabled, and I check to see that the cache
>> directory exists, creating it if it doesn't already exist.  I don't want
>> to create directories on shutdown if I can avoid it...
> 
> 
> There is no provision for this functionality at the moment. I'll try to 
> submit a patch for httpd API and if accepted that we can build on top of 
> it a perl API. We could implement this in mod_perl as well, but it's 
> better to have a C API so to ensure that the feature will be there for 
> years to come.

One possible workaround, is not to run:

   % httpd -k stop

but send SIGTERM directly:

   % kill -s TERM `cat httpd.pid`

I've asked on httpd-dev whether it's possible to add a mechanism to know the 
state of the process when httpd.conf is parsed.

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