Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:35:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: mod_status.c
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> > > Maybe we need an API so people can write their favourite mod_status page
> > > style templates :-)  Sounds like a job for PHP.
> > 
> > Although I think making the mod_status page pretty is a rather useless
> > thing to do, the idea of somehow making the information on it available to
> > a module is interesting.
> 
> Committing to make the scoreboard portable, and the interface public is
> not at all a good idea. 
> 
> Contrast the old-style ps which mucked around in /dev/kmem, and the newer
> styles which use /proc.  It's pretty much the same problem. 

But a couple of access functions would take care of that.
ap_fetch_scoreboard_data() that returned a struct * to the data, for
example.  

-Rasmus