RE: [PHP-DEV] GDLib/reentrant

Ok, I fixed reading gif files. gddemo now works completely, as does giftogd. Shane > > Ooops, it's not working yet, looking into it. > > Shane > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shane Caraveo [mailto:shane@caraveo.com] > > Sent: Saturday, September 12, 1998 7:49 PM > > To: 'Rasmus Lerdorf'; 'Bug Database' > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] GDLib/reentrant > > > > > > > > GD is awefully useful and it would be sad to lose it > > > completely in PHP > > > > 3.1. Could we not stick a lock around these functions and > > > > only allow one > > > > thread into them at any one time? > > > > > > > > > The only thing > > > that will realy fix it in a useful way is to make gdlib > thread safe. > > > Eventualy, if someone else doesn't get to it, I might. The > > > > Ok, I took a quick look, and realized there was an easy way > to make gd > > reentrant. Because all the gdlib api functions require a > > pointer to a gd > > image structure (except those that create it) it was easy to > > add a structure > > to that that holds all the globals. That way, we pass all > the globals > > around with the image structure. This took a couple hours work to > > implement, but now I have it...a reentrant gdlib. This > > should work on unix > > as well, and with all existing programs that use gdlib, as it > > doesn't change > > the api at all. If someone can run this through the wringer, > > that would be > > greate. I ran the test programs that come with gd, without > > problem. I've > > cvs'd rgd.zip into the 3.0 tree under the extra directory. > > > > Shane > > > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ > > To unsubscribe send an empty message to > > php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > > > > > -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net