Re: Deprecate setlocale?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > On 2 April 2015 at 12:24, Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com> wrote: > > On 2 April 2015 at 16:01, Keyur Govande <keyurgovande@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> To Rasmus's point, here's a PR for HHVM to provide a thread-safe > setlocale > >> implementation: > >> https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/pull/4736/files > >> > >> It should be fairly easy to refactor the thread-safe-setlocale.(h/cpp) > files > >> for Zend. > > > > Ok, that' pretty awesome. So assumming that we incorporated that new > > thread safe version of locale, how would we expose it? Most people who > > are calling setlocale are unaware of it's side effects, and so should > > be using the new safe version by default. > > > > Some people who are calling setlocale will actually be using the > > cross-thread behaviour and so that still needs to work. > > > > setlocale is a variadic function, so it's not possible to hack in a > > flag parameter. As much as I dislike ini settings, it seems like > > adding one here would be sensible e.g. 'thread_safe_setlocale' > > > > * If it's enabled the setlocale function calls the new thread safe > > functionality. > > > > * If it's disabled the setlocale function calls the current non-TS C > > setlocale function. > > > > > > Does anyone have a better suggestion on exposing a thread safe version? > > What about just adding another function: setlocale_global(), or > similar? I don't want a new INI setting any more than you do. > > Adam > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I like the idea of an INI actually, but I would make it default to the current bahaviour and user education so those who need TS know to change it. Ryan