Re: Moving to PHP5.1 and Apache 2.2 next year, need help

Hi Ron, On Tuesday 09 August 2005 19:09, Ron Korving wrote: > Nonetheless, Rasmus, isn't it something to work on? Like Steve said, #1 and > #2 can be accomplished, and that would at least be a good start. You are > right about the libraries, but in time, even these may become thread safe > (of course, likely not by anyone from the PHP-community). Why is this > thread-safety such a taboo for many of the people here? Don't get me wrong, > I know it can't be done in one go, but a start could be made, right? > Perhaps that start could be made from PHP6 on? It doesn't have to be > officially thread safe, because of all the libraries, but it could be > thread-safer... PHP itself is thread-safe. The problem is in the libraries. Rasmus once wrote a nice mail to this list about these problems: http://news.php.net/php.internals/10491 johannes