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--- a/web/module
+++ b/web/module
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ namespace web
// HTTP status code.
//
+ // @@ Define some commonly used constants?
+ //
using status_code = uint16_t;
struct name_value
@@ -92,6 +94,17 @@ namespace web
write (const char* msg);
};
+ // The web server creates a new module instance for each request
+ // by copy-initializing it with the module exemplar. This way we
+ // achieve two things: we can freely use module data members
+ // without worrying about multi-threading issues and we
+ // automatically get started with the initial state for each
+ // request. If you really need to share some rw-data between
+ // all the modules, use static data members with appropriate
+ // locking. See the <service> header in one of the web server
+ // directories (e.g., apache/) if you need to see the code that
+ // does this.
+ //
class module
{
public: