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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:20:51 +0200
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To: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Enable extension loading from .user.ini when
 run as CGI.
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

Hi Edward,

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:
> From: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@mit.edu>
>
> Functionality is not included for other SAPIs because they either do not
> support .user.ini (e.g. CLI) or they serve multiple requests and thus
> do not support dl() (e.g. FastCGI).

dl has been disabled in FastCGI and other web SAPIs for a reason, it
is not working well and brings php to instability. I do not think
adding this to .user.ini will be any better.

> There is also a bugfix to invoke zlist_clean, to ensure extension_lists can be
> reused for the second round of extension appliations (since the head and tail
> pointers have garbage in them).

Can you create a patch only for this bug fix please? Ideally a bug
report + patch or pull request :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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