I have a web application with a global.asa in the application directory. 
Whenever I modify a file in this application and the global.asa recompiles 
users get a 512 error - Application Restarting, forever. If I try to stop 
the web service it hangs. I have to use the Kill utility to stop the 
process and then I can restart it normally. After this the web application 
responds to requests as expected.

I've read Microsoft's tech note Q248013 and it was of no help (quote from 
tech note: This message is harmless and usually disappears after the 
browser is refreshed. There is no good workaround once the message appears 
from a production environment.) 

Finally, the global.asa in this application does nothing! It is the 
default file created by Interdev. The only reason I have it here is 
because I do not want this application to accidentally inherit settings 
from another global.asa. I thought I had read that this was the behavior, 
i.e., an application can inherit settings from a global.asa higher up in 
the hierarchy if it doesn't have its own global.asa. Now I can't find that 
reference so I'm not sure about this. Everything I read tells me this file 
is "optional" but, again, I don't want the application to accidentally 
inherit settings.

Any ideas?