>But does PHP ask HTTPD to load PHP modules? If not, PHP would need to do >the same.
This is how I understood Ian's suggestion. That PHP asks its extensions whether they're thread-safe or not. And PHP itself tells Apache whether it - as a whole, i.e. including its extensions - is thread safe. j. -- A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen - http://jgcl.at/ko/ - new photos from summer camp 2002 in Moosen/Tirol