Re: persistent sockets need help

On 10.07.2008, at 14:43, Richard Krehbiel wrote:

Here's the big part: I was thinking that a semantic change to persistent sockets might make it easier for scripts to work "correctly" without bothering them too much. The change is this: If a script doesn't "fclose" it's "pfsockopen"ed socket, it gets closed *for real* when the script ends. I suggest this because I think it would make scripts "just work" in the presence of failures, even if the script coder doesn't completely understand the principle; it makes the transaction boundaries "automatic". The down side is that, if a script forgets the fclose, things work but it doesn't recycle sockets, it makes new ones all the time. The other down side is that for old scripts that never had an fclose in them, they stop getting recycled pfsockets until the fclose is added. I'm going to do *something* about this myself, anyway. I'd really like it if a solution were adopted into the main code base.

I think this might generally be a solution to make persistent connections less error prone in PHP. This includes database extensions as well. However it does strike me as something that should be done in a major PHP version .. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org