Perrin, > I suggest you look at IPC::MM or IPC::Shareable. IPC::Shareable is more > transparent, but IPC::MM has better performance. IPC::MM simply creates > a hash in shared memory and lets you write to it. Either of these will > allow you to share data between processes.
Thanks, I'll have a play around with these! >> What I really want to do is to write a module that can be accessed from >> any of the child apache processes such that some work can be done at one >> stage, and if the second request comes through to another child, that >> child can pick up on the work of the first.. > That sounds pretty sketchy to me. Why are you trying to do that? There > may be a much simpler way to achieve what you're after. Hmm.. Yes, it sounds pretty sketchy to me too! Immediately what I am playing with is the idea of keeping parsed XML (XML::LibXML)in memory between requests. Is this a completely barmy idea? ATB, J.
