Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
> I've compiled so-called thread-safe version of PHP and the corresponding 
> MPM long time ago, before I've used MediaWiki (I use it since v1.9.3). 
> I've had various problems and instability with such setup. It seems that 
> not much changed since then:
> http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-believe-the-lies-php-isnt-thread-safe-yet/

I don't think it's so bad but YMMV.
The worst offenders are extensions. If the maintainer don't build them
thread safe, they can easily miss a TSRM_CC in a function call, which
means a segfault when threaded.

>> If the function has several names use function_exists() or check the
>> mediawiki version ($wgVersion).
>>
> I don't think that would fix these problems.
> Dmitriy

In fact, I'm not sure to have understood the problem. I find the
proposed options quite bizarre. So if you have understood the
"specification", please enlighten me. :)


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