Re: Global variables lifetime

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Themis Vassiliadis <tvassiliadis@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm developing a new extension and it will be necessary to set and access > data from variables sharing them between each request. Normanly this > variable just need be declared as global or static. > > In extensions I read that we can do something like that using > ZEND_INIT_MODULE_GLOBALS() and ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS() macros. > > How is the variable lifetime ? Precisely the variable should be used at > webserver startup and still using it until shutdown without lose any data > and this should be done in any webserver and plataform (Apache, IIS etc) ??? > > Explanations will be very appreciated. As long, as you use malloc() to allocate memory, it will not be gathered by garbage collector, so it's lifetime is defined by you. -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/