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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:47:38 -0400
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From: Farokh Irani <farokh@mcfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Module initialization
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>On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Farokh Irani wrote:
>
>>I must just be dense, but I've spent a whole bunch of time trying 
>>to figure exactly how I can put initialization code into my module. 
>>It's code that needs to run only once when apache (2.2.x) is 
>>starting up, so any pointers would be appreciated.
>
>oops, incomplete answer:
>
>static int your_routine(apr_pool_t * p_conf, apr_pool_t * p_log, 
>apr_pool_t * p_temp);
>
>/* register our interests */
>static void hooks(apr_pool_t * p)
>{
>   ap_hook_pre_config(your_routine, NULL, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);
>  ...
>}
>
>module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA atom_module = {
>   STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
>   NULL,                       /* create per-directory config structure */
>   NULL,                       /* merge per-directory config structures */
>   NULL,                       /* create per-server config structure */
>   NULL,                       /* merge per-server config structures */
>   directives,                 /* handle config directive */
>   hooks                       /* registrar */
>};

OK, thanks for that tidbit. However, as someone else mentioned, if I 
need to do something when apache is restarted, will this do the trick?

Also, when apache is shutting down, can my module do clean up and how 
do I handle that?

Thanks!
-- 

Farokh
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