Re: Thread safe extension homologation

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:53:35 -0300
mlemos@xxxxxxx (Manuel Lemos) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any intention/plan to homologate PECL extensions in order to
> let developers know whether they are safe to use with multi-threaded
> Web servers?
> 
> I think homologation could also be applied to core extensions but from
> what I read I guess most of them are thread safe already.
> 

It could be a very good addition. However it is a lot of work to really
valid each extension and the underlying libraries. One problem is the
very little usage of threaded environment by the PECL developers, it is
not the environment of choice.


I can think about three possible "labels":

- Not thread safe: Known to fail, cannot be fixed easily or pointless

- Thread safe
  Fully tested, TS garanteed (if we can say so, there is always unknown
  bugs)

- Should be thread safe
  no issue should raised, but the extension has not been intensively
  tested, or not at all


I do develop in TS environment frequently (windows, linux, apache2 or
maintainer zts mode in console as tests), I should be able to help in
one way or another.

--Pierre