I am working on a module for Apache 1.3 (upgrading to 2.x is not an
option at the moment) where I want to, for each Apache child process
that spawns, open a file, and keep that file open for reading for the
life of the child process. The API document describes a pchild pool
that sounds exactly like what I want: lives for the length of the
child, calls the child_init and child_exit handlers where I can stick
the ap_fopen and ap_fclose functions into...
Problem is, I have no idea how to use this. I suppose its more of a
problem of not knowing how to use pools for storing my own information.
I could allocate sizeof(FILE) to the pchild pool, and I'll get a
pointer back, and store the file descriptor in there. Great... now
how do I tell the rest of the module what that pointer is? Just put
in a "static FILE *myfile;" line in the code? Is that going to be
multi-process safe? (I get the feeling I'm asking the wrong
questions...)
