Re: [PHP4BETA] What is ext/lcg/lcg.c?

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 22:30 29/08/99 , Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > Well, I'm not sure what we're waiting for exactly, to be honest. Do you > > > have an idea on how to implement this shared pool of objects in a platform > > > independent (read: works under both UNIX and Win32) way? > > > > Well, I'm not sure what you mean with "objects." > > > > As Rasmus noted, we will need some flexible mechanism to > > provide modules with additional capabilities (i.e. on > > process/thread startup/shutdown events already exists, I > > needed on server startup/shutdown events). These fit well > > into the existing zend_module_entry structure. > > > > Stig mentioned portability problems wrt server capabilities, > > i.e. > > > > #define SAPI_PRE_FORK_START_HOOK > > #define SAPI_PROCESS_START_HOOK > > > > which allow modules to adapt their behaviour to possible > > configurations. > > > > I don't know what new features Apache 2 will introduce in > > this area, but we should take that into account. Maybe > > someone has pointers to papers about the new design of > > Apache. > > We can't really rely on Apache though. We must use features available in > all major servers. Yes, but we cannot always restrict ourselves to use only the least common subset of functionality. If one extension requires something that SAPI's backend can't provide, we just have to disable parts of that extension. - Stig