Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24081 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37017 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Jun 2006 17:19:06 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37002 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2006 17:19:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Jun 2006 17:19:06 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sesser@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 81.169.145.170 natlemon.rzone.de Solaris 10 (beta) Received: from ([81.169.145.170:63656] helo=natlemon.rzone.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id C0/1C-30619-A0FFA844 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:19:06 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.77] (p508761A5.dip.t-dialin.net [80.135.97.165]) by post.webmailer.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5AHIvd6003459; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:18:57 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <448AFF00.3090300@php.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:18:56 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael B Allen CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <20060610131459.1be2ba20.mba2000@ioplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060610131459.1be2ba20.mba2000@ioplex.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extension Installer Catch 22 From: sesser@php.net (Stefan Esser) Hello Michael, > I'm writing an extension installer. I want to write the installer in > PHP. This presents a problem if the extension was previously installed and > is automatically being loaded because it can segfault after overwriting > the .so module file. > IIRC, the correct way to replace .so files is to unlink() them first and then write the new file into place. Greetings, Stefan