On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:57:00AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On Thursday 03 of March 2005 11:23, you wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:51:38AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > > Package: libapache-mod-php4 > > > Version: 4:4.3.10-8 > > > Severity: important
> > > The following script
> > > <? dl('mysql.so'); ?>
> > > Produces the output:
> > > Warning: dl(): Not supported in multithreaded Web servers - use
> > > extension statements in your php.ini in /var/www/dl.php on line 1
> > > with apache and apache2 SAPI.
> > Yes, upstream has mindlessly disabled use of dl() over some vague,
> > unsubstantiated concern about dlopen() in threaded environments. I have
> > a patch somewhere to re-enable dl() when ZTS is turned on, it just
> > hasn't gotten added to the package yet.
> It is going worse.
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/libraries/defines.lib.php?rev=2.28&view=auto
> Some scripts as phpMyAdmin try to detect if the dl() function is available
> with the same algoritm as PHP itself.
Ok, so, get them to fix their retarded and broken check?
> I think it could be better to provide non-ZTS version for Apache 1.3 and ZTS
> version for threaded Apache 2.0.
"Other people write stupid and buggy code" is not much of a rationale
for supporting double builds of all extensions.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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