Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21088 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1770 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Dec 2005 00:54:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1755 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2005 00:54:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Dec 2005 00:54:38 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 70.85.46.36 unknown Received: from ([70.85.46.36:54982] helo=prohost.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 5E/20-14828-D4487934 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:54:38 -0500 Received: (qmail 9344 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2005 00:54:33 -0000 Received: from prohost.org (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (70.85.46.36) by prohost.org with SMTP; 8 Dec 2005 00:54:33 -0000 Message-ID: <43978448.9020004@prohost.org> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:54:32 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart de Boer , internals@lists.php.net References: <22.BF.14828.12287934@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <22.BF.14828.12287934@pb1.pair.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Multithreading From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) You don't need threads, you can use fork() for that. On *nix systems it is very fast, nearly as fast as threads and much safer to boot. And you can already do forking in PHP via PCNTL extension's pcntl_fork() function. Ilia