APR::Pool - Perl API for APR pools
use APR::Pool ();
my $sp = $r->pool->new;
my $sp2 = APR::Pool->new;
# $sp3 is a subpool of $sp,
# which in turn is a subpool of $r->pool
$sp3 = $sp->new;
print '$r->pool is an ancestor of $sp3'
if $r->pool->is_ancestor($sp3);
# but sp2 is not a sub-pool of $r->pool
print '$r->pool is not an ancestor of $sp2'
unless $r->pool->is_ancestor($sp2);
# $sp4 and $sp are the same pool (though you can't
# compare the handle as variables)
my $sp4 = $sp3->parent_get;
# register a dummy cleanup function
# that just prints the passed args
$sp->cleanup_register(sub { print @{ $_[0] || [] } }, [1..3]);
# tag the pool
$sp->tag("My very best pool");
# clear the pool
$sp->clear();
# destroy sub pool
$sp2->destroy;
APR::Pool provides an access to APR pools, which are used for an
easy memory management.
Different pools have different life scopes and therefore one doesn't need to free allocated memory explicitly, but instead it's done when the pool's life is getting to an end. For example a request pool is created at the beginning of a request and destroyed at the end of it, and all the memory allocated during the request processing using the request pool is freed at once at the end of the request.
Most of the time you will just pass various pool objects to the methods that require them. And you must understand the scoping of the pools, since if you pass a long lived server pool to a method that needs the memory only for a short scoped request, you are going to leak memory. A request pool should be used in such a case. And vice versa, if you need to allocate some memory for a scope longer than a single request, then a request pool is inappropriate, since when the request will be over, the memory will be freed and bad things may happen.
If you need to create a new pool, you can always do that via the
new() method.
APR::Pool provides the following functions and/or methods:
cleanup_register
Register cleanup callback to run
$pool->cleanup_register($callback); $pool->cleanup_register($callback, $arg);
$pool ( APR::Pool object )
$callback ( CODE ref or sub name )
$arg ( SCALAR )
If this optional argument is passed, the $callback function will
receive it as the first and only argument when executed.
To pass more than one argument, use an ARRAY or a HASH reference
If there is more than one callback registered (when
cleanup_register is called more than once on the same pool object),
the last registered callback will be executed first (LIFO).
Examples:
No arguments, using anon sub as a cleanup callback:
$r->pool->cleanup_register(sub { warn "running cleanup" });
One or more arguments using a cleanup code reference:
$r->pool->cleanup_register(\&cleanup, $r);
$r->pool->cleanup_register(\&cleanup, [$r, $foo]);
sub cleanup {
my @args = (@_ && ref $_[0] eq ARRAY) ? @{ +shift } : shift;
my $r = shift @args;
warn "cleaning up";
}
No arguments, using a function name as a cleanup callback:
$r->pool->cleanup_register('foo');
clear
Clear all memory in the pool and run all the registered cleanups. This also destroys all sub-pools.
$pool->clear();
$pool ( APR::Pool object )
This method differs from destroy() in that it is not
freeing the previously allocated, but allows the pool to re-use it for
the future memory allocations.
DESTROY
DESTROY is an alias to destroy. It's there so
that custom APR::Pool objects will get properly cleaned up, when
the pool object goes out of scope. If you ever want to destroy an
APR::Pool object before it goes out of scope, use
destroy.
destroy
Destroy the pool.
$pool->destroy();
$pool ( APR::Pool object )
This method takes a similar action to clear() and then
frees all the memory.
is_ancestor
Determine if pool a is an ancestor of pool b
$ret = $pool_a->is_ancestor($pool_b);
$pool_a ( APR::Pool object )
$pool_b ( APR::Pool object )
$ret ( integer )
$pool_a is an ancestor of $pool_b.
For example create a sub-pool of a given pool and check that the pool is an ancestor of that sub-pool:
use APR::Pool (); my $pp = $r->pool; my $sp = $pp->new(); $pp->is_ancestor($sp) or die "Don't mess with genes!";
new
Create a new sub-pool
my $pool_child = $pool_parent->new; my $pool_child = APR::Pool->new;
$pool_parent ( APR::Pool object )
The parent pool.
If you don't have a parent pool to create the sub-pool from, you can use this object method as a class method, in which case the sub-pool will be created from the global pool:
my $pool_child = APR::Pool->new;
$pool_child ( APR::Pool object )
parent_get
Get the parent pool
$parent_pool = $child_pool->parent_get();
$child_pool ( APR::Pool object )
$parent_pool ( APR::Pool object )
undef if there is no parent pool (which is the
case for the top-most global pool).
Example: Calculate how big is the pool's ancestry:
use APR::Pool ();
sub ancestry_count {
my $child = shift;
my $gen = 0;
while (my $parent = $child->parent_get) {
$gen++;
$child = $parent;
}
return $gen;
}
tag
Tag a pool (give it a name)
$pool->tag($tag);
$pool ( APR::Pool object )
$tag ( string )
Each pool can be tagged with a unique label. This can prove useful
when doing low level apr_pool C tracing (when apr is compiled with
-DAPR_POOL_DEBUG). It allows you to grep(1) for the tag you have
set, to single out the traces relevant to you.
Though there is no way to get read the tag value, since APR doesn't provide such an accessor method.
APR::Pool also provides auto-generated Perl interface for a few
other methods which aren't tested at the moment and therefore their
API is a subject to change. These methods will be finalized later as a
need arises. If you want to rely on any of the following methods
please contact the the mod_perl development mailing
list so we can help each other take the steps necessary
to shift the method to an officially supported API.
cleanup_for_exec
META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed
Preparing for exec() --- close files, etc., but *don't* flush I/O buffers, *don't* wait for subprocesses, and *don't* free any memory. Run all of the child_cleanups, so that any unnecessary files are closed because we are about to exec a new program
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