Alan Knowles wrote: > Ok, had a slight play with it again.. > > I did eventually find the perl code for threading although without an > lxr server it's pretty much impossible to decipher all the macros they > use..
It's not about looking at the perl code, that will tell you nothing unless you know perl internals. It's about the way the interpreter works, some of the architecture, that is simular to PHP. In PHP, threads are isolated, kind of like seperate processes, but in threads. Everything in PHP works that way, so in creating threads for php scripts, you have to have a seperate interpreter. Then you have to create a "bridge" between the threads for shared variables. shmop comes close to what is needed, but not close enough. > The code for this stuff is pretty simple at the moment.. - so i'ts down > the bottom.. You're much closer to what needs to happen now. But you cannot simply point to the memory for another thread. Doing that will cause problems like you are running into. You actually have to copy a bunch of stuff so each thread is completely independent. I've worked up some code in TSRM to abstract native thread calls, and have started on an extension, but probably won't have it complete until this weekend some time. What you've done now is fairly simular, but pthread specific. Given time, I might have enough done to email a diff containing my work tomorrow night if you want to take a look. Shane -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
