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Subject: Re: Multithreading: I'm not complaining--I did something! (and itworkson
 Windows)
From: alecgorge@gmail.com (Alec)

Another update! Added a new function and a new argument to a function. 
Check out example05.php for an example using curl. I am working on 
getting example02 and 03 to work. There is a bug when parameters are 
streams, the program crashes. Fun.

-Alec

On 8/23/2010 8:35 PM, Alec wrote:
> As an update, I fixed the crashing bug, the usleep bug (I don't know if
> it was really a bug, probably just a misinterpretation on my part), and
> the hanging bug. I fixed thread joining. I updated the samples and I am
> working on example05.php that will demo cURL!
>
> Thanks to Tom R. who contacted me off the mailing list with a patch for
> the crash that would have taken me forever to track down!
>
> -Alec
>
> On 8/22/2010 11:12 PM, Alec wrote:
>> Hi guys, long time reader, 2nd time poster. I realize there is
>> much...bitterness about multithreading in PHP. I feel it is important,
>> but I know others don't. I just wanted to write and say that I have made
>> Moriyoshi Koizumi's php_threading (
>> http://github.com/moriyoshi/php-src/blob/PHP_5_3-threading/ext/threading/
>> )
>> available for Windows!
>>
>> I converted all of the code to pthreads instead of GNU Pth so that
>> pthreads-win32 could be used on Windows. I am quite proud to say that
>> converted it all from Pth to pthreads by only reading the documentation
>> and never actually building it with GCC--and it worked the first time.
>> Well, not quite, but those were just dependency and other errors (like
>> that stupid 32 bit time thing)--all the pthreads stuff worked first time
>> (that is the first time I have said that about anything C related :D)! I
>> just converted it all in good ol' Notepad++ and then made VC2008 project.
>>
>>
>> QUICK REPO, SOURCE AND BINARY LOCATION
>> --------------------------------------
>> My repo is at: http://github.com/alecgorge/php_threading
>>
>> I push the compiled DLL so you can always find the latest compiled
>> version at:
>> http://github.com/alecgorge/php_threading/tree/master/binaries/Release/
>>
>> If you are interested in a "stable" version I will post them at:
>> http://github.com/alecgorge/php_threading/downloads
>>
>>
>> HELPING
>> -------
>> For those of you interested in helping, go ahead! The repo has
>> everything you need to build except for the Windows SDK and VC2008. It
>> has all the PHP headers, PHP libraries, pthreads-win32 headers and
>> pthreads-win32 libraries you need to compile yourself (in the deps
>> folder).
>>
>> Now for the bad part: it is really ****ing buggy. For example: most of
>> the samples work. Some never exit. Some crash. But overall it is
>> "stable" enough just to use for a quick personal project with PHP.
>>
>> I think the biggest bug is that usleep breaks (whoops).
>>
>>
>> Here is my comments by sample (found in source/samples/)
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> 01: Works well except for the crashing at the end.
>> 02: Doesn't work at all. But I have never worked with sockets in PHP so
>> maybe someone wants to lend a hand?
>> 03: Goes with example02. Doesn't work at all and I have no clue why.
>> 04: Demos sending content to threads. It works except it never exits!
>>
>>
>> What I would like:
>> ------------------
>> - Someone with real experience working with threads and C to give me a
>> hand tracking down some of the bugs. I am willing to fix things myself
>> but I am having trouble locating things!
>>
>> - Linux people to help me out. I have no Linux box handy so tell me if
>> this build works with Linux. I tried to make sure I didn't break
>> anything by using conditional comments--and I think it works? (see:
>> http://github.com/alecgorge/php_threading/blob/master/source/threading.c#L369
>>
>> for an example)
>>
>> - Linux people to give me build instructions. You can see Moriyoshi's
>> original instructions at
>> http://github.com/moriyoshi/php-src/blob/PHP_5_3-threading/ext/threading/README
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the wall of text, I just had a very productive 12 hours of
>> coding and wanted to tell the world :D
>>
>> -Alec
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