persistent connection api [was Re: [PHP4BETA] how does the ZTS work / where are the mutexes?]

> hmm, module writes should than consider to create their own "private" > "global" persistent list - so we can do connection-pooling. i got most of > that stuff already in place for oci8 (lucky me;-) - question is: do we > want to create an API for things like this? - i think it would be a nice > idea. Another suggestion for another API: Most modules handling persistent connections contain almost the same code for handling these resources. The API could be as simple as long acquire_resource(char *modname, char *key, void *(*create)(char *key)); Checks whether a resource with that specific `key' has already been created in the namespace `modname.' If it does not exist, it calls the create function and passes the key. The `void *' result of that is stored in a persistent list. The function returns the list id of the stored entry. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant