Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] Re: What's wrong with dl?

On Mon, September 18, 2006 6:20 am, LAUPRETRE François (P) wrote: > OK. Thanks for your answers, I didn't see this problem with each > thread restarting in an 'empty' state and having to reload extensions > through the autoloader. Even if loaded extensions could be registered > in shared memory, I agree: it is much better to remove dl() except in > CLI mode. In multi-process non-threaded SAPIS can we not keep dl()? Obviously it has to die in threaded SAPIS, and I can see why that is so. [shudder] But if somebody is running Apache pre-fork whatsit... Why remove it from SAPIS that can support it? I actually found it very useful to be able to dl() an iffy extension, knowing that the odds that I'd bring down a whole server just to play with it were smaller that way. Yes, a dev server. Even so -- I've got a lot of balls in the air, and was fairly confident the extension was "safe" and wanted to test it without building a whole new server or yet another port/vhost to keep track of. For an extension that's rarely rarely rarely used, like almost never, dl() makes perfect sense, in an environment that can support it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm