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by _zagj 208 days ago
> At least once people realized how insecure it was to run shared code on a mod_perl host.

People realized this immediately, given how much mod_perl exposed Apache's guts to script writers (so they could write modules in Perl--a feature few asked for, and fewer used) and how tightly coupled the two were, so much that calling Perl's humble 'exit' built-in became a notorious footgun (until, IIRC 5.6), terminating the underlying Apache process itself.