Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C By:   Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern Published:   O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.  - March 1999 Copyright © 1999 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Chapter 11 - C API Reference Guide, Part II

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Introduction Implementing Configuration Directives in C Customizing the Configuration Process String and URI Manipulation File and Directory Management Time and Date Functions Message Digest Algorithm Functions User and Group ID Information Routines Data Mutex Locking Launching Subprocesses

Introduction

In this Chapter

• Implementing Configuration Directives in C
• Customizing the Configuration Process
• String and URI Manipulation
• File and Directory Management
• Time and Date Functions
• Message Digest Algorithm Functions
• User and Group ID Information Routines
• Data Mutex Locking
• Launching Subprocesses

The previous chapter covered the common parts of the C API, including the core routines for handling requests, manipulating tables, and managing memory. This chapter begins with a comprehensive guide to implementing configuration directives in C. It then turns to less essential parts of the API, including utility routines for parsing, routines for handling files, and functions for constructing and parsing URIs.

This chapter also covers several of the more esoteric aspects of the C API, such as the interface to the MD5 digest function and techniques for opening pipes to subprocesses.