Hi all,
I wanted to follow-up a bit on a thread that was on the main list
regarding hooking new hooks (I think there it was suexec_id). I deleted
the original posts and don't have "proper" access now to make an elegant
response, but I wanted to share the idea before I forget it and see if
someone here could shape it a bit better. It occurred to me that it may
be possible to allow for dynamic hooking to a very large extent by using
dlsym (or some equivalent trick) to turn a string into a function
pointer in C. If we could pull that off, it shouldn't be so difficult
to allow additional hooks to be hooked in the post_config stage. While
this wouldn't work for everything, we could pre-create maps for the
common argument data types (request_rec, server_rec, int, void) and that
should give us enough to let the user dynamically hook hooks in the
config. The configuration directive might look like:
PerlAddHook HookName Some::Module::hook ReturnType ArgCount ArgTypes
[ArgTypes is limited to predefined allowed types which will be converted
to the corresponding perl structures]
This even gives us a minor speed boost of not requiring all hooks to be
hooked to further reduce overhead (since I seem to recall that Stas and
Doug went to a lot of effort to shave off everything that could be shaved).
Again, this is really more of a brainstorm than a matured
idea/suggestion, but wanted to get it off my chest :-)
Issac
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