Re: shared memory extention

Hi,

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:33 +1000, Geoffrey McRae wrote:
> I have been working on a shared memory extension for PHP that uses
> "Shared Memory Arena" for management and storage
> (http://shm-arena.sourceforge.net/).

I see the lib uses LGPL,which is acceptable. What license will you use?
(BSD / PHP  are strongly preferred)

> For security each user can have a limit of 1MB of shared memory, which
> is owned by the running process uid, the limit is compiled into the
> extension but could be made a ini value fairly easily.

ini value sounds like a good choice.

> It handles all zval types excluding (for now) array and object types.
> resource types will never be allowed in the cache for obvious reasons.

At least arrays should be supported. Probably serializing them is
enough. (note: not all objects can be serialized, many internal classes
don't provide the needed info, often it doesn't make sense (like PDO))

> * bool sm_set(string $name, mixed $value[, int $ttl])
> sets $name to $value
> $ttl is optional and defaults to 0 (forever)
> returns TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.

Is there a global TTL orother cleanup-technique? (I don't know
shm-arena)

Can you show the code?- While i think this should be fine and no problem
to add to PECL. Do you already have an account?

johannes