Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0.0Release packaged

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Hello thies,

On 26-May-00 07:25:31, you wrote:

>On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:20:15PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> > But lets move on.  I talked with Evan Klinger that told me that he
>> > added code to PHP 4 to support calls like select()/listen() to
>> > sockets, but you guys commented out the code to have it reimplement
>> > somehow more convinient. What's the status of that?  I really could
>> > use those functions for many interesting purposes that are useful for
>> > Web developers (backend servers without needing Web servers and other
>> > sorts of TCP deamons).
>> 
>> Well, we do have some code review.  Evan's code was a bit akward and needs
>> to be cleaned up before it can go in.

>    evans code kept the fd_sets in globals variables in the php
>    engine and not on the script-level. i am the evil guy that did not
>    want this to hit public before it's in better shape. evan
>    agreed that his current implementation was not flexible
>    enough so i decided to take it out for the time beeing. 

Would it be all to make fd_sets script level variables instead of global
variables or are there other issues that you feel that need to be
addressed?

BTW, does this code from Evan have anything to do with that code from Chris
that wrote a socket listen PHP extension to develop a PHP IRC server?


>    i'm sure it will reappear in good-shape one day. anybody
>    wants to volonteer?

I am too busy like everybody else, but once in a while I have some time
free. I can take on the job in my free time, if you can guide me through
the issues that you feel that are necessary to be address.

PHP is lagging in its abilities when compared with other languages like
Perl and Java because there is no way to make it act as backend server that
front end scripts may connect to do assyncronous processing.  I feel that
is the way to go for it.


Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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