[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Wed Jan 9 05:39:32 CET 2013


On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 04:36:26 AM Oliver Burger wrote:
> Am 08.01.2013 11:04, schrieb Frederik Himpe:
> > On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:20:35 -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> >> If nobody objects I am going to rebuild php treadsafe
> >> (--enable-maintainer-zts)
> >> it is needed for running apache with mpm-module-worker instead of
> >> prefork and php apache module worker is needed by 389-ds. It is now
> >> declared as stable.
> >> 
> >> But apache mpm-prefork starts with php compiled treadsafe apache
> >> mpm-worker doesn't start with php compiled none-treadsafe
> > 
> > You can run PHP with apache2-mpm-worker with mod_fcgid and php5-cgi or
> > php5-fpm.
> > 
> > This is what Debian Wheezy's README file for php says:
> > 
> > Using PHP 5 with threaded webservers (e.g. apache2-mpm-worker)
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> >    After much back-and-forth with upstream (and even building our
> >    packages thread-safe for a while), we're currently admitting defeat
> >    on that front, and are NOT building any thread-safe versions of PHP
> >    5 for any webservers. Our recommendation is that, if you need to use
> >    a threaded webserver, you should use php5-fpm and interface to your
> >    webserver with FastCGI.
> > 
> > I think Mageia is hurting itself by enabling too experimental features.
> > Another example is the uas kernel module, of which I saw a complaint
> > recently in this mailing list. This module is known to be buggy, and
> > disabled in Debian.
> 
> +1
> 
> That's what Oden told me yesterday on IRC.
> 
> So as current php maintainer I vote against enabling this.
> 
> Oliver
 I reversed.
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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