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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Enable extension loading from .user.ini when run as CGI.
From: ezyang@MIT.EDU ("Edward Z. Yang")

Excerpts from Pierre Joye's message of Sat Jul 28 02:20:51 -0400 2012:
> > 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.

It has been a while, but last winter we discussed this patch and decided
that extension loading was OK for short-lived PHP processes, e.g. CGI.
So this patch only enables it for CGI.

> Can you create a patch only for this bug fix please? Ideally a bug
> report + patch or pull request :-)

Sure, I can split in two. Does PHP use pull requests?

Edward