Using semaphores in PHP.

We're in this situation where we have to limit the number of database connections active at any one time. In other apache modules we've written we use a sempahore for this purpose. I was thinking I would just hack some semaphores into a local copy of PHP for use with mod_php3, but then I thought that semaphores might be generally useful and I should create some PHP wrapper functions for them. But it appears there would be a problem with the time limit code where a process could grab a semaphore and be time limited before it could release the semaphore. Assuming the process doesn't exit() and instead lives to process another request, this would be bad. Any input on whether adding semaphore wrappers would be a reasonable thing to do, and how to deal with the time limit problem (other than not using a time limit)? Tom. -- 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