Hello, I'm about 1 week past the reading of the php extensions section of the manual and have been working on some ext stuff and had an implementation type question. I did read the fairly recent thread on threading support in php.Which I believe I grokked, however does php being non-reentrant mean I can't use threading in an extension I write for php? Let me give you an example of what I am trying to get at here.
Suppose I wanted to add and extension the creates a "service". For example I wanted to create a "service" that pings a host 20 times once every 10 minutes and saves the average ping time to a file. I also want to be able to change aspects of this service while its running. Like the number of pings to use or the time between pings.I would also want to be able to run multiple "copies" of this service that ping different hosts.So I would obviously be exporting start and stop functions for this "service". And possibly a single "control" function that supports changing all the aspects of the running service that I might want to change.However, I am a little in the dark on what my options are for spawning off a new process/thread that will continue working in the background so the exported function can return in the script and go on it's merry way. I'm hoping a more experienced crowd might have some suggestions for an implementation of this type. Any pointers to more info, modules that do something similiar or suggestions would be very welcome. Eric Liedtke -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
