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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] solution for DL's using atexit()
From: abies@php.net (Ard Biesheuvel)

> I don't know if we should get into this. Do we *really* care if we crash 
> on exit? 

Are you serious ?? Of course we care about segfaults, don't we, even if 
it's 'only' on exit ??

> We are talking about MSHUTDOWN not RSHUTDOWN here. It's not an 

Depends if you use dl() or load from php.ini. If loaded by dl(), it will 
segfault on every request.

> ideal situation but I wouldn't want screw things in PHP just for these 
> dumb shared libraries :)

Actually, I've already committed a patch which will omit the dlclose() 
call. This means the module will not be available if you do not dl() it 
on every request, but it won't be dlclose()'d after you've loaded it 
once. Note that this will only affect users who have the interbase.so 
and actually use it.

-- 
Ard