Re: Using semaphores in PHP.

At 12:00 17/11/98 -0800, Jim Winstead wrote: >On Nov 17, Tom May wrote: >> At the moment it's set up to recognize --enable-sysvsem as a configure >> switch. Maybe it should be --with-sysvsem instead. If you enable it, >> it assumes you've got semget() etc. and if you don't then the build >> will break but that's operator error. >> >> While you all ponder the --enable vs. --with, I'll get the >> documentation going. > >Well, since nobody else has voiced an opinion, I'll cast my vote for >--enable. > >However, I think it would make even more sense to just test for the >functions and enable it automatically if they exist, just like we do >for dlopen(), tempnam(), etc. It's not like enabling these functions >impacts anyone's life in a meaningful way. I think it does actually. There's a very limited number of semaphores available on a given system and that resource may not be something that system administrator wants the users to share. That was my motivation to have it selectable. I cast my vote for --enable as well. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- 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