On 8.2.2010, at 17.40, Valery Gorbunov wrote: > I am developing plugin for Dovecot. And I needs for read some configuration > file at startup > and store configuration in application wide variable. As I see the > plugin_init() method calls > multiple times and allocates plugin's variables each time. Could you suggest > better way to > store variable in application context.
plugin_init() is called once for every process (and a separate process is created for each connection). If you want to share state between multiple processes, you need to use files or something else.