Richard Lynch wrote: > If you re-read the previous emails from Rasmus, you will find that these > questions are already answered within them. > > So I'm going to go on at length here telling you (again) what you don't > want to hear. In my opinion, the answer "some libraries are thread safe, some are not" is generic. The answer "the libraries in chapter VI. Function Reference of official PHP Manual version 03-01-2005" is specific. Now I think I understand the answer a bit better. We did not understand if you were talking about the libraries we develop, the libraries you develop, the libraries everybody else develops, commercial libraries, whatever library you can think of. Not all the libraries are indeed listed in the manual. I apologise for being stupid and hard of understanding. > If you can narrow your focus down a bit from *ALL* of Section VI to *just* > the libraries you *really* need, you might get the answer you want to > hear: "Oh, those are all thread-safe." Here some more specific questions. 1)Is the core of php thread safe? That is, are the function which do not need external libraries thread safe? 2)Here is the list of the function sets we need to use, from Section VI Apache-specific Functions Array Functions Calendar Functions Class/Object Functions CURL, Client URL Library Functions Cyrus IMAP administration Functions Date and Time Functions Direct IO Functions Directory Functions DOM Functions DOM XML Functions Error Handling and Logging Functions File Alteration Monitor Functions Filesystem Functions Forms Data Format Functions FTP Functions Function Handling Functions Gettext GMP Functions HTTP Functions Image Functions IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions PHP / Java Integration LDAP Functions Mail Functions Mathematical Functions Multibyte String Functions Mimetype Functions Miscellaneous Functions MySQL Functions Improved MySQL Extension Network Functions Unified ODBC Functions Object Aggregation/Composition Functions Object property and method call overloading OpenSSL Functions Output Control Functions PDF functions PHP Options&Information PostgreSQL Functions Program Execution Functions Session Handling Functions Shared Memory Functions SimpleXML functions SQLite Shockwave Flash Functions Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions String Functions URL Functions Variable Functions vpopmail Functions XML Parser Functions XML-RPC Functions XSL functions XSLT Functions We would like to know if they are thread safe to a level which is suitable for production environment. 3)Are there internal mechanisms in php for protecting thread safety (memory leak, threads overwriting memory in use by another thread, blah, blah)? We hope these questions are specific enough. -- symbulos partners -.- symbulos - ethical services for your organisation http://www.symbulos.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
