On Mon, June 19, 2006 8:13 pm, Chris wrote: > Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: >> Excuse me... in which scenarios isn't fork() available? As far as I >> know, it even works on Windows (albeit slower... not that you'll be >> gaining any performance by curl'ing your URL - that's actually >> slower >> than fork()). > > It's (probably) not that the fork() etc commands don't work on > windows, > just that the php functions don't. > > http://www.php.net/pcntl
fork() in anything other than CLI/CGI is dangerous because PHP extensions (and/or web-server extensions) are not known to be thread-safe. So, by definition, when you fork in a web-server, you are just ASKING for an intermittent bug, that will be virtually impossible to catch with QA and which will bite you in the ass when you are slashdotted, i.e. at the worst possible time. If your run a special PHP server with NOTHING loaded into it, no mysql, no gd, no nothing, you could *MAYBE* have some reasonable chance of it not puking all over you blue suede shoes... But I sure wouldn't bet the company bottom line on it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
