Name

Child Initialization

Synopsis

static void 
                  module_child_init(server_rec *pServer,pool *pPool)

An Apache server may consist of many processes (on Unix, for example) or a single process with many threads (on Win32) or, in the future, a combination of the two. module_child_init() is called once for each instance of a heavyweight process, that is, whatever level of execution corresponds to a separate address space, file handles, etc. In the case of Unix, this is once per child process, but on Win32 it is called only once in total, not once per thread. This is because threads share address space and other resources. There is not currently a corresponding per-thread call, but there may be in the future. There is a corresponding call for child exit, described later in this chapter.

See Example 21-11 (1.3) for an excerpt from mod_unique_id.c.

Example

Example 21-11. mod_unique_id.c
static void unique_id_child_init(server_rec *s, pool *p) { pid_t pid; #ifndef NO_GETTIMEOFDAY struct timeval tv; #endif pid = getpid(); cur_unique_id.pid = pid; if (cur_unique_id.pid != pid) { ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_NOERRNO|APLOG_CRIT, s, "oh no! pids are greater than 32-bits! I'm broken!"); } cur_unique_id.in_addr = global_in_addr; #ifndef NO_GETTIMEOFDAY if (gettimeofday(&tv, NULL) == -1) { cur_unique_id.counter = 0; } else { cur_unique_id.counter = tv.tv_usec / 10; } #else cur_unique_id.counter = 0; #endif cur_unique_id.pid = htonl(cur_unique_id.pid); cur_unique_id.counter = htons(cur_unique_id.counter); ...

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