Re: Persist context across threads?

On Mon, May 14, 2012 1:47 pm, David Rueter wrote: > I am interested in preserving the complete PHP context for a thread > (globals, > variables, interpreter, etc.--everything) for later access from a > different > thread. > > What would be involved in this? It seems like: > > 1) Avoid calling ts_free_thread > 2) Call tsrm_set_interpreter_context from new thread > > Is it safe to assume that the context of a terminated thread will not > be > destroyed or overwritten as long as ts_free_thread is not called? I don't really know what I'm talking about, but nobody has answered yet... For starters, not all extensions are thread-safe. I would expect that to mean that anything actively using those extensions saved state in another thread is a segfault waiting to happen. For security reasons and sheer plain cussedness, I don't think you're going want and/or get any resource (mysql connection/result/etc, gd images, file handles, etc) survive to the next thread. A mysql connection, for example, is opened with a specific user/pass. Another thread picking this up could probably abuse that, as I understand it. Finally, your question begs another question: Why do you want to do this? -- brain cancer update: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/search/label/brain%20tumor Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FS9NLTNEEKWBE