Re: Reentrancy and extensions

From: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:59:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Reentrancy and extensions
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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

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