Hi, I'm not in favour of adding this patch. It *will* create different behaviour than the vanilla PHP does - that's the whole purpose of the thing. Especially for an interpreter (or compiler) it's undesirable that running a web application under RedHat PHP 5.1.2 yields different results than under Debian PHP 5.1.2. Being a maintainer of web applications I know how hard it is to keep one application functioning on the different versions that upstream distributes - let alone if distributions are going to change it aswell.
There's a separate package available that has this patch, as was mentioned above. Why can't you use that? Seems like the solution to please all. Thijs
