Re: Reentrancy and extensions
| From: | Moriyoshi Koizumi | Date: | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:59:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reentrancy and extensions | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Sound like a good idea to me.
Moriyoshi
"David Hill \(php.net\)" <ddhill@php.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> back on reentrancy.... I know that with some of the libraries the extensions depend on are
> not reentrant (ie. also not thread safe). The imap library cclient comes to mind (unless something
> has changed recently) and I know gettext caches data in global structures (which would make me
> wonder). It occurs to me that we already have a list of extenions ( ./EXTENSIONS), what about adding
> an extra field to the listing? This field would be:
>
> ZTS: [unknown|yes|no]
>
> and would default to unknown. This would help those of us trying to use Apache2 to choose which
> extensions can be included based on the extension maintainers view of the safety of the code.
>
> Dave