On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Shane Caraveo wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Wez Furlong wrote: > > > >>It should be safe to never ever dlclose() a module. > > > > > > Do you mean never to dlclose() a module loaded via dl() at request time or > > do you mean that in general it should be safe to never dlclose() a module > > even if it came in via an extension line in the php.ini file? The former > > is likely a true statement, but the latter is definitely not. > > > > -Rasmus > > It's exactly how other languages deal with binary extensions, once > loaded, never unload, even between requests. That approach would fix > and greatly simplify dl for php (note I haven't looked at dl code in > more than a year so I could be speaking out of my ass). The double pass > that Apache could be handled by having php_apache avoid processing > extensions on the first pass.
Then we would potentially be throwing bogus syntax errors since the extension handling a particular conf directive embedded in an Apache conf file wouldn't be there. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
