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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:19 PM
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Harrie Hazewinkel wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Could someone explain to me why httpd-2.0 still has the
> > so-called module magic number in the module struct?? (see below)
> >
> > /** Magic Cookie to identify a module structure; It's mainly
> > * important for the DSO facility (see also mod_so). */
> > unsigned long magic;
> >
> > Is the purpose of the new module struct and dynamic hooks
> > making this obsolete??
>
> No. It should make them increase less often, but whenever an API changes,
> the module magic number must be bumped.
*should* being the operative word here. Don't see that happening. I've
bumped it at least when the really, really cryptic stuff has changed, such as
harrie's scoreboard reorg. I suppose the Apache group should simply bump it
as a matter of course on each version bump till the API is at least modestly
stable.
