hholzgra Thu Jun 2 20:46:55 2005 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions setlocale.xml
Log:
added warning about setlocale() not being thread safe
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml?r1=1.22&r2=1.23&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml:1.22
phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml:1.23
--- phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml:1.22 Thu Sep 16
10:14:17 2004
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml Thu Jun 2 20:46:55 2005
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.22 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.23 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
<refentry id="function.setlocale">
<refnamediv>
@@ -104,6 +104,18 @@
what the system setlocale function returns.
</para>
</note>
+ <warning>
+ <para>
+ The locale information is maintained per process, not per
+ thread. If you are running PHP on a multithreaded server
+ api like IIS or Apache on Windows you may experience
+ sudden changes of locale settings while a script is
+ running although the script itself never called
<function>setlocale()</function>
+ itself. This happens due to other scripts running in different
+ threads of the same process at the same time changing the
+ processwide locale using <function>setlocale</function>.
+ </para>
+ </warning>
<tip>
<para>
Windows users will find useful information about
