Andrej van der Zee wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a solution for detecting a post_config
invocation on behalf of "apachctl restart" instead of a clean start (in case
of a restart, I do not want to initialise my stuff again).
Do not do this - a restart should be a restart, not a half of a
restart. You should be reinitializing whatever you do on a restart as
well as a start. That's the whole point.
I have one phrase that should illustrate why : memory leak.
For example, if your extension creates another thread or spawns another
process and that other thread/process doesn't clean up on a restart and
contains a memory leak, what good is restart to you? Restart has
suddenly become pointless.
It is good etiquette to honour the concept of a restart.
Joe
