Liz,

My apologies. You are completely correct, INIT and CHECK will not run anywhere in mod_perl. I checked every possible situation I could think of in one of my current mod_perl projects, and nothing worked. So I will now put my foot in my mouth.

Apparently even modules loaded with PerlModule and PerlRequire are at some level eval-ed. Which to me seems ugly, but not being a C programmer or Stas Beckmen, who am I to complain.

After some reading though, it seems to me that the PerlRestartHandler and PerlChildInitHandler could potentially be used to accomplish similar functionality. PerlRestartHandler happens before Apache pre-forks all the children, and PerlChildInitHandler runs at the begining of each child process. Has anyone ever tried to use these as CHECK/INIT replacements?

-stvn

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: RFC : Pragma vs. Module by stvn
in thread RFC : Pragma vs. Module by stvn

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