Re: shared memory: shm_has_var

IV>> Well, the original question was (not really) in the (very) IV>> general vicinity of using the shm_* functions to reserve and IV>> attach to shared memory segments. Then the question was brought IV>> up as to why these reserved segments aren't released when Apache IV>> is restarted. shm_* are script-level functions, and the methods I guess because shm_* functions aren't implemented in a right way, or lack some features. IV>> you're talking about are engine-level functions. That's where it should be - I don't think such a tiny OS-level details belong to PHP code. Most users don't want to even know about this - as they don't want to know about memory allocation for variables, etc. IV>> Maybe a fix would be to have some sort of web-server-level IV>> shared memory support as well. Most people don't need the IV>> OS-level stuff anyway for programs outside of the PHP engine; IV>> they just need something that can survive execution of the IV>> script. Then they should use sessions (which have shared memory storage module, IIRC). -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.106