Re: Fork() in php?

["Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org>] > Hello Zeev, > > On 12-May-01 14:14:10, you wrote: > > >At 04:05 12/5/2001, Wez Furlong wrote: > >>I know that there might be some bad interactions with apache if you fork, > >>but if you allow PHP to spot that it forked and call _exit() instead of > >>returning into the SAPI, you should be OK? > > >Not really, the parent has to somehow call wait() on the child, otherwise > >you'd get zombie processes... > >Generally, implementing that sort of stuff within the Apache framework is a > >bit of asking for trouble :I > > Anyway, PHP really lacks of real multi-threading capabilities. Things like > database connection pooling, (non-HTTP) server request handling, and GUI > event processing could be properly implemented in PHP with multi-threading > capabilities like the way it is done in Java, Perl, Python, etc. but can't > be done right in PHP because it lacks multi-threading support. > > Any plans to add multi-threading capabilities to PHP? There are no plans for adding MT to PHP itself, but you do have "a poor man's cooperative multi-threading" through ticks. So now we have a poor man's objects and a poor man's multitasking. What does that say about us? :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway