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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PATCH] Deprecate use of stdio
From: uwe@thetaphi.de (Uwe Schindler)

Under Solaris 9 it is impossible to link against sfio without changing sfio 
itsself.

At 11:38 02.05.2003 -0400, you wrote:

>I've been playing with sfio on Solaris quite a bit recently and I've had our
>site working on iPlanet with sfio for a couple of weeks. Seems to be doing
>okay so far with something between 4.3.1 and 4.3.2. Getting sfio to link
>was a bit of pain in the arse at first, but it came down to a couple of
>simple LIBS arguments to get it going.
>
>As you say, fixing the problem at the root would be preferable, but sfio
>might be a decent intermediary step.
>
>I can test the patches and such on Solaris 8 SPARC, and if you (or anybody
>who needs it, within reason of course) would like access to a Solaris
>shell, I can arrange it. (It's slightly limited by a 300 MB quota, but
>that's pretty much it.)
>
>J
>
>
>Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> >     The following patches are aimed at deprecating the use of
> >     stdio by the script lexer in PHP 4, because certain stdio
> >     libraries impose restrictive limits on the number of open
> >     handles*.
> >
> >     The patches have been split functionally for the benefit of
> >     the reviewer.
> >
> >     Patch 1 adds a stream interface which fills in a
> >     zend_file_handle.  This is simply a modified copy of the
> >     open_as_file function.
> >
> >     Patch 2 adds zend_open() which expects the implementation to
> >     fill in a zend_file_handle.
> >
> >     Patch 3 makes PHP supply a zend_open implementation.
> >
> >     Patch 4 modifies the lexer skeleton so that it can read using
> >     POSIX functions and stdio.  It also makes
> >     open_file_for_scanning use zend_open.
> >
> >     * Background: Even the most modern Solaris ships with a stdio
> >       library which cannot handle fds over 255.  This severely
> >       limits any web server which may open more than 255 fds per
> >       process, because it won't be able to parse PHP scripts
> >       anymore.
> >
> >       I've evaluated integrating sfio into the build process, but
> >       as it turns out, a full and complete integration would be a
> >       lot more complex than addressing the issue up-front.
> >
> >     - Sascha
>
>
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