scoreboard access from other processes

[John ORourke]

Hi folks,

Is there a method of accessing the scoreboard of a running httpd from 
outside of that process?

I often find the times I want to see the output of mod_status are when 
the server is too busy for me to access it reliably so I figured a 
command line version would be useful.

It that's not possible, is there a way to reserve a child for a 
particular request, vhost, or source IP?

thanks
John