RE: A patch to fix one sort of mod_perl crash I've been experiencing [& PerlInterpScope directive]

Now that I've found this and read it:

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html#C_PerlInterpScope_

and now that I've strained my brain trying to figure out the crashes I've observed when interpreters are modperl_interp_unselect()ed, I'm pretty sure that PerlInterpScope doesn't work as documented. I think that interp pool cleanups get registered into the correct pool (maybe) but so many (if not all) modperl_interp_select() calls have matching modperl_interp_unselect() calls that the interp pool cleanups are redundant and the subject patch aborts them.

So my patch stops the crashes but doesn't result in correct PerlInterpScope behavior.

I also suspect that a better fix of this interpreter management might also get the other bug I'm chasing.

So I have a question: How important is this PerlInterpScope directive? 



Richard Kandarian
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