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Subject: PHP logging and concurrency
From: roshan.naik@hp.com ("NAIK,ROSHAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)")


Looking at the sources I was surprised to see concurrency problems with
logging.
Multiple processes/threads seem to freely open, write and close the log file
without
bothering about any synchronization. 

The function php_log_error() seems to be the function that finally writes to
the 
the log file specified in php.ini. 
This implementation could lead to a loss of logging information on heavy
loads.

Would that be correct ? If so, perhaps I (or someone else) could work on 
fixing it.

-- Roshan