[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

Tue Jan 8 11:04:45 CET 2013

On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:20:35 -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+
+> If nobody objects I am going to rebuild php treadsafe
+> (--enable-maintainer-zts)
+> it is needed for running apache with mpm-module-worker instead of
+> prefork and php apache module worker is needed by 389-ds. It is now
+> declared as stable.
+> 
+> But apache mpm-prefork starts with php compiled treadsafe apache
+> mpm-worker doesn't start with php compiled none-treadsafe
+
+You can run PHP with apache2-mpm-worker with mod_fcgid and php5-cgi or 
+php5-fpm.
+
+This is what Debian Wheezy's README file for php says:
+
+Using PHP 5 with threaded webservers (e.g. apache2-mpm-worker)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  After much back-and-forth with upstream (and even building our
+  packages thread-safe for a while), we're currently admitting defeat
+  on that front, and are NOT building any thread-safe versions of PHP
+  5 for any webservers. Our recommendation is that, if you need to use
+  a threaded webserver, you should use php5-fpm and interface to your
+  webserver with FastCGI.
+
+
+
+I think Mageia is hurting itself by enabling too experimental features. 
+Another example is the uas kernel module, of which I saw a complaint 
+recently in this mailing list. This module is known to be buggy, and 
+disabled in Debian.
+
+-- 
+Frederik Himpe
+
+