Hi! Looking into some issue, I've discovered that, to my surprise, > Exceptions are serializable. Except that it doesn't always work of > course (e.g. see http://stackoverflow.com/q/9747813/214196) because > exceptions contain backtraces, and those can contain non-serializable > objects. So in reality, you never know if you can serialize it or not. > > So, I wonder - would it be ok to make exceptions not serializable at > all? I think that would prevent major WTF factor when people try it and > it randomly fails. >
Since discussion on this did not lead to a definite conclusion, but I did not hear from anybody that they need serialized exceptions, and we keep getting bug reports about exception serialization and various issues triggered by it, I propose this change: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1442 Since it is kind of BC break (even though I assume it breaks something that needed not to be allowed in the first place) I'd like to merge it in 7.0.0. Please object if you think this should not be done and explain why. Otherwise I intend to merge it after a suitable wait and after adding necessary tests/docs. Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com
