Re: PHP 3.0.10 Released June 25th

On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:20:28PM -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Are any of the other patches added since 3.0.10 at all questionable? > > If so, I'll just back them out before rolling 3.0.11. As long as we > > get it out today or tomorrow, it shouldn't impact most people, since > > 3.0.10 didn't go out until after close of business Friday. > > Yes, the alarm() stuff is questionable. I know I was the one to encourage > that one, but since I am somewhat involved in Apache 2.0 issues these days > it looks like it may be a bad idea to introduce it at this point. Signals > and threads do not go well together. We may want to look at doing > something similar with select() or hold off completely for a bit until I > figure out how this would mesh with Apache 2.0 better. > > I would hate to introduce something at this point that is impossible to > carry forward into Apache 2.0. > > -Rasmus > I agree that this might become a problem. Once people start to use a new function or a whole new API we hardly will be able to alter it or to remove it completely. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant