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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 02:15:31 +0900
To: Uwe Schindler <uwe@thetaphi.de>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] browscap and nesting level too deep (bug #25916)
From: moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com (Moriyoshi Koizumi)


On 2003/12/04, at 2:06, Uwe Schindler wrote:

> This evening I will try to put a mutex at the beginning of get_browser 
> to prevent more threads running at the same time there. But as I see 
> this, this zend_hash_apply function is used very often could there be 
> other effects if a global variable is a hashtable?
>
> Only one question: Is there a special PHP way to use mutexes? I am not 
> familar in Zend programming (I do only SAPI...)

Did you take a look at zend_ts_hash (only in php5) and tsrm_mutex_*() ?

I'm not quite sure if the facility is enough tested and
really thread-safe though.

Moriyoshi