Re: DBM ties within Apache under Mod Perl

Jim Morrison [Mailinglists] wrote:
> One of the things I understood mod_perl allowed you to do is to tie a
> Hash/DBM to the top apache process, so that it's always available
> throughout the other apache processes?

You can only do that for read-only dbms.  For read/write, use MLDBM::Sync.

> PS.  Do people think this is a bad idea from the start?

Yes.  For one thing, there is no way to know when people leave your site.

- Perrin