Re: localized lexical varibles

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On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:27 +0300, Vladimir D Belousov wrote:
> As I know, my module has been loaded only once and has been loaded by 
> the root httpd process.
> And when any httpd forks exist (prefork), let's present next situation:
> one of the existing httpd forks changes value of any variable (in my 
> example $s).
> Whether value in relation to other existing forks will change?

No.  There is no sharing of variables between mod_perl processes.

> How I understand, the apache creates the new instruction point for each 
> process  - the index to the current instruction (standart in Unix, do 
> not load the code again), but where from does it get the variables and 
> any data?

This is just standard forking stuff.  Forked processes do not share any
data.  There is something called copy-on-write that works to save memory
between forked processes, but no actual sharing of data like you're
talking about here.

- Perrin