That's exactly what happens and i learnt it the hard way :). Now my next question is: is there any ideal place provided by the apache API to allocate a shared memory object? Is there any source code example of such a use case?
Thanks. Luca On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:11:57 -0500 (EST), Cliff Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, luca regini wrote: > > > My understanding about per server conf is that any structure allocated > > in the server config handler should have a lifetime that is the same as > > the one of the module. So the server config structure should be an ideal > > place for caching values. > > But actually, it's not an ideal place at all, for the very reason you're > finding here. I suspect what's happening to your code is that you're > running up against the fact that each child process has its own copy of > the server_rec and all of the server_config structures. They are not in > shared memory, they're just duplicated when the parent forks itself. > Therefore these structures are really only meant to be written to by the > parent at config time. Writing to them after that point will result in > inconsistent state across children. > > --Cliff >
