On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > is there a way to find out whether a prefork MPM is being used in> > mod_perl while running a Perl script? >use Config; ? I thought Config.pm was specific for your Perl installation, and had> nothing to do with mod_perl? Aren't we getting away from the original intention a little if we need to know within a script under what model we're running it? It gives a whole new dimension to the word "portable".
Most users don't need to know. I would like to supply my general purpose modules, which can run in a stand-alone script, under mod_perl 1 or mod_perl 2, with sensible default behaviour. So that you don't need to make changes to your config when you switch from prefork to threaded MPM's.
For example, CGI.pm provides the:
use CGI (-compile :all)
way to have everything loaded. Now, in my opinion, CGI.pm should do The Right Thing in a prefork MPM environment and make that behaviour the _default_. So you don't have to know about it as a developer.
Hope this makes my intention clear...
Liz
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