At 08:54 AM 10/20/99 +0200, Stas Bekman wrote:
>> Besides all the information at perl.apache.org, can you recommend any good
>> resources (book, web pages) that stand out in your memory as being very
>> helpful when you were starting out?
>
>I'm not sure why have you discarded the docs at perl.apache.org so fast,
>did you read them at all? Did you take a look at the guide?
>perl.apache.org/guide
I said "besides", not that I discarded the docs you mention.
I did read the Guide. It's helpful and a wonderful bit of work. But I
still have questions and I haven't been at this long enough to grok it all
in. For example, you say:
"Perl's exit() built-in function cannot be used in mod_perl scripts."
I started to edit my scripts per the examples in the Guide, but then
decided to try it first, and, it turns out, exit() works without explicitly
overriding in my script. Reading perldoc Apache::Registry again, I see
that exit is overridden automatically. Confusing to a newcomer, no?
My CGI scripts were, in a BEGIN block, opening STDERR to a file (and using
that file as a lock file). But now I see that STDERR is reset next time my
script is called. Where can I read about that and other similar behavior
that I should be aware of?
How do I find out why die() is causing a diagnostics message being sent to
the client? I'm not using Carp or any __WARN__ or __DIE__ handlers in my
script or in the startup.pl file.
Bill Moseley
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