libapa...tAlloc(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

APR::BucketAlloc — the Perl API for Bucket Allocation, bestie 🪣✨

Like, this is the Perl doc page libapa...tAlloc(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and we're gonna read it together, okay? No cap.

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✨ Synopsis ✨

use APR::BucketAlloc ();
$ba = APR::BucketAlloc->new($pool);
$ba->destroy;

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🦋 Description 🦋

APR::BucketAlloc is used for bucket allocation. That's the whole vibe. It's giving allocator. 🪣

🌸 new 🌸

Create an APR::BucketAlloc object, periodt:

$ba = APR::BucketAlloc->new($pool);

• class: APR::BucketAlloc
• arg1: $pool ( an "APR::Pool object" )
  • The pool used to create this object. 👑
• ret: $ba ( an "APR::BucketAlloc object" )
  • The new object. She's fresh, she's new, she's literally an APR::BucketAlloc. 💅
• since: 2.0.00

This bucket allocation list (freelist) is used to create new buckets (via APR::Bucket->new) and bucket brigades (via APR::Brigade->new). That's her job, and she ate. 🔥

You only need to use this method if you aren't running under httpd. If you are running under mod_perl, you already have a bucket allocation available via $c->bucket_alloc and $bb->bucket_alloc. So like, check first, bestie, don't be out here making a whole new one for no reason. 🫶

Example:

use APR::BucketAlloc ();
use APR::Pool ();
my $ba = APR::BucketAlloc->(APR::Pool->pool);
my $eos_b = APR::Bucket::eos_create($ba);

(yes, that's the code exactly as it lives in the wild, typos and all — main character energy, we don't touch it 💀)

🎀 destroy 🎀

Destroy an "APR::BucketAlloc object":

$ba->destroy;

• arg1: $ba ( an "APR::BucketAlloc object" )
  • The freelist to destroy. bye bestie 😭
• ret: no return value
• since: 2.0.00

Once destroyed this object may not be used again. Like, she's gone, don't text her. 🙈

⚠️ You need to destroy $ba only if you have created it via APR::BucketAlloc->new. If you try to destroy an allocation not created by this method, you will get a segmentation fault. Not cute. Not iconic. Do not do this.

Moreover normally it is not necessary to destroy allocators, since the pool which created them will destroy them during that pool's cleanup phase. So like, the pool handles it, she's got you, chill. 💖

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🌈 See Also 🌈

mod_perl 2.0 documentation. iykyk 📚

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💜 Copyright 💜

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

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👑 Authors 👑

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.

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okay bye bestie, this page is libapa...tAlloc(3pm) from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20 — slay, go allocate some buckets responsibly ✨🦋🎀