RE: [PHP-DEV] Module startup/shutdown in PHP extensions

Ahh, that would probably explain it. My test (not a very good one) wouldn't have shown the fact that the startup function was being called twice. I was just worried that when I came to use these functions for something important I would have found everything deleted by the shutdown function straight away. thanks for your help. Pete Dishman -----Original Message----- From: George Schlossnagle [mailto:george@omniti.com] Sent: 19 July 2002 14:26 To: Jon Parise Cc: David Eriksson; Pete Dishman; php-dev@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Module startup/shutdown in PHP extensions I believe this is because when apache does it's intial configtest run as part of start (to validate it's config), it has to do a complete startup (otherwise it wouldn't know about conf params used by modules loaded as DSOs. So you see a startup; shutdown; startup. On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 03:59 AM, Jon Parise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:42:41AM +0200, David Eriksson wrote: > >>> 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'm only guessing, but that may occur when Apache does it's initial > fork(s). It's been a while since I worked with the Apache module API, > though. > > -- > Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) > http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > // George Schlossnagle // Principal Consultant // OmniTI, Inc http://www.omniti.com // (c) 240.460.5234 (e) george@omniti.com // 1024D/1100A5A0 1370 F70A 9365 96C9 2F5E 56C2 B2B9 262F 1100 A5A0