On 15:25 Mon 12 Jan , felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> This is a common question maybe the php website should eleborate on the
> reasoning for not saying mod_php is not stablge on apach2.
>
> The reason as far as I know is because of thread safety. Apache 2 can be
> compiled with different multi processing modules (MPM). The default with
> gentoo is prefork which is default on gentoo. The other one worker and
> perchild involve threads. Not all libraries that link with php are
> thread safe therefore it would not be safe to use a thread based apache
> build with calls to libraries in php that are not thread safe. Php
> itself can be compiled thread safe ? Anyone with more knowledge like to
> eleborate on this topic ?
Not to discredit the Apache crew in any way, but I believe I read the exact
same article/webpage/whatever you did and it concluded with something like
"The biggest reason of all not use Apache2 is simply because regular Apache
still works fine." And for me it does.
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