Re: Are application wide variables possible with PHP4?

Marc Aßmann wrote: > Is this working for all operating systems or is this working only for > some Unix platforms? AFAIK yes. Maybe there exists some compatibility library for win32. > The headers in the C - sources of these modules contain a warning that > this has only been > tested for Solaris 2.6. > It should work on all Plattforms that support System V Shared Memory. > Does someone know more about chances and limitations of these modules > for implementing > application wide variables with it? eg. Could there be a problem that > two scripts try to write > the same block of memory and a third is trying to read that garbadge??? > That's why you need sysvsem, that provides Semaphores. Please look in the appropriate sections of the manual for a description. IMHO, if you can use shared memory/semaphores on your platform, this would be the way to implement application wide variables. -Andreas -- Andreas Karajannis GMD National Research Center for Information Technology Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin Phone +49 2241 142948