Re: Module startup/shutdown in PHP extensions

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Pete Dishman wrote: [snip] > Now the problem is when I start apache (net start apache) php seems to call > the module startup function and then it calls the module shutdown function > immediately afterwards. The request startup and shutdown functions seem to > work as expected, i.e. they get called when I make a request to apache. > > If I then stop apache (net stop apache) the module shutdown function gets > called as expected. It's just when starting that the problem occurs. Is > this the expected behaviour and if so is there anyway of telling in the > module shutdown function if the module really is shutting down or have I > done something completely wrong? I have seen this behaviour too, I guess PHP just works this way, it calls the module startup and shutdown function pair once on initilization. I have never bothered to figure out why :-) -\- David Eriksson -/- "I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology." - Linus Torvalds