Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26834 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79599 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Dec 2006 16:01:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79584 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2006 16:01:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2006 16:01:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sesser@hardened-php.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sesser@hardened-php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain hardened-php.net from 81.169.146.190 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sesser@hardened-php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 81.169.146.190 mo-p07-ob.rzone.de Solaris 10 (beta) Received: from [81.169.146.190] ([81.169.146.190:9698] helo=mo-p07-ob.rzone.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 87/10-13900-6AA38754 for ; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:01:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.77] (p5B0069DB.dip.t-dialin.net [91.0.105.219]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo39) (RZmta 3.8) with ESMTP id iB7DKYWs03571I; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:00:23 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:00:23 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <45783A9E.3000804@hardened-php.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ilia Alshanetsky CC: Zeev Suraski , internals@lists.php.net References: <0c60b01d19ec7e242ade31e29120ee27@gravitonic.com> <4577FC87.7090109@hardened-php.net> <79.1E.13900.F8038754@pb1.pair.com> <5D89A1AE-2EB0-4977-A7EE-B511A4843D27@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: <5D89A1AE-2EB0-4977-A7EE-B511A4843D27@prohost.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2: Serialization patch From: sesser@hardened-php.net (Stefan Esser) > Well, older version of PHP will be totally incapable of parsing it, > creating problems for the many people who use serialized strings as a > means of passing data between PHP applications. This would be an > especially big problem if you would want to add it to a pre-6.0 release. Uhmm you are missing the point. The point was that PHP 5.2.x can read data serialized with PHP 6. PHP 5.2.x only needs to be able to read it. Generating it is not necessary. At the moment it seems that data serialized in PHP 5.2.x is totally incompatible with PHP 6. Stefan