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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] persistent sockets need help
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 10.07.2008, at 14:43, Richard Krehbiel wrote:

> Here's the big part:  I was thinking that a semantic change to  
> persistent
> sockets might make it easier for scripts to work "correctly" without
> bothering them too much.  The change is this:  If a script doesn't  
> "fclose"
> it's "pfsockopen"ed socket, it gets closed *for real* when the  
> script ends.
>
> I suggest this because I think it would make scripts "just work" in  
> the
> presence of failures, even if the script coder doesn't completely  
> understand
> the principle; it makes the transaction boundaries "automatic".  The  
> down
> side is that, if a script forgets the fclose, things work but it  
> doesn't
> recycle sockets, it makes new ones all the time.
>
> The other down side is that for old scripts that never had an fclose  
> in
> them, they stop getting recycled pfsockets until the fclose is added.
>
> I'm going to do *something* about this myself, anyway.  I'd really  
> like it
> if a solution were adopted into the main code base.


I think this might generally be a solution to make persistent  
connections less error prone in PHP. This includes database extensions  
as well. However it does strike me as something that should be done in  
a major PHP version ..

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org