$NetBSD: patch-af,v 1.9 2002/02/01 16:04:39 jlam Exp $

--- src/modules/standard/mod_so.c.orig	Fri Feb  1 10:05:43 2002
+++ src/modules/standard/mod_so.c
@@ -324,7 +324,15 @@
         return err;
     }
     
-    file = ap_server_root_relative(cmd->pool, filename);
+    /*
+     * If the filename starts with '!', then just dlopen() it without
+     * translating it to a pathname relative to ServerRoot.
+     */
+    if (filename[0] == '!') {
+	file = filename + 1;
+    } else {
+	file = ap_server_root_relative(cmd->pool, filename);
+    }
     
     if (!(handle = ap_os_dso_load(file))) {
 	const char *my_error = ap_os_dso_error();