Just the tip of the iceberg. There are a bunch of libraries that PHP can talk to that are not threadsafe. It's going to take a while before Apache2+PHP is going to be useful.
For GD specifically, yes we can put in some mutexes as I earlier today put a copy of the GD library into PHP CVS so we can fiddle with it and distribute our own modified GD with PHP. -Rasmus On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Brian Havard wrote: > While doing some testing with Apache 2.0.35+PHP4.2.0RC3 I'm getting random > crashes in T1_LoadFont(). Looking through the t1lib source (v1.3.1) I see > frequent use of global variables which suggests it isn't thread safe. Is > this a known problem? Maybe some mutexes in GD would help.... > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
