Re: pemalloc in PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION segfaults on win (but not on linux)

Hi, Holger Blasum wrote: > Hello pecl-dev, > > executive summary: in php-5.2.0 (or 5.0.0), is it ok to do a pemalloc in > the PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION? If not, what is the appropriate (minimalist) way > to provide memory that is going to be shared globally among > all threads/clients? PHP's TSRM provides portable mutexes. Use MUTEX_T in conjunction with - tsrm_mutex_alloc() - tsrm_mutex_free() - tsrm_mutex_lock() - tsrm_mutex_unlock() > slightly more verbose explanation: this is my PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION > PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION(stack) { > StackContext(s) = (STACK *)pemalloc(sizeof(STACK),1); > return SUCCESS; > } to have a globally shared stack. (To be shared among different > threads/clients.) > > Much more detail (including full source of the toy 'stack' example) at > http://www.blasum.net/holger/journal/20070312/ > > (valgrinding it on linux gves me 'ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 > contexts (suppressed: 29 from 2)', for the suppressed ones i have 25 > in libc5 and 4 in dl_relocate_object, so apparently not php-related) > > Many thanks in advance for any help (e.g.: is this generally the > 'right way' of doing this? (I admit that I wanted to avoid resources > because they seem thread-specific.) Did I make a subtle error or is it a > win-specific thing?... ) > HTH, Andrey