Re: Re: will PHP and GNU gettext work properly with Apache?

On 2005/03/01, at 2:00, Dave Patton wrote:
> I've added a note to the PHP website page for gettext:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php

Great. Note that msvcrt.lib, which bundled gettext binary is linked
against, is MT-safe too.

libintl included in glibc is perfectly reentrant, using glibc's
mutex locking facility. The same may not apply to other platforms.

Moriyoshi

> ===============================================================
> Make sure you check your webserver configuration before deciding
> to use gettext, because if you are running in a multi-threaded
> environment you should not use gettext, as it is not thread-safe.
>
> A future version of gettext(possibly 0.15) may be thread-safe.
> Any gettext dependencies, such as glibc would also need to be
> thread-safe.
>
> Apache 1.3 on Unix generally is non-threaded, but on Windows it
> is multithreaded.
> Apache 2.0 has support for MPMs(Multi-Processing Modules), some of
> which support multiple threads:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html
> ===============================================================

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