Re: Heavy need for action at Pear::Date

> I already replied in the bug tracker. Yes, I can see a reply from late august 2004. In your reply you wrote: > We should restore the TZ var to their original status. As I have noted in the comments, this is not a thread safe solution. The arguments has to be cloned in order to take care of the critical region. > Second fixing this issue without BC and keeping TS issues is not a > quick task. I don't know what you mean with "TS". Regarding to BC, there are two cases: * php4: Objects are here parsed by value and is therefore automatically cloned. Fixing the bug (by cloning arguments as the first thing in the function body) will therefore leave an equivalent and functioning implementation - regarding to php4. * php5: Objects are parsed by reference. By cloning the arguments we obtain a situation equivalent to the php4-case, which does not have the problem. In both the php4 and php5 cases I see no BC issues. If you are en lack of time I will gladly provide a patch, if this can boost a new release, with a bugfix, soon. Regards