[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

Tue Jan 8 12:36:26 CET 2013

Am 08.01.2013 11:04, schrieb Frederik Himpe:
+> 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.
+>
++1
+
+That's what Oden told me yesterday on IRC.
+
+So as current php maintainer I vote against enabling this.
+
+Oliver
+
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