[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP3] Apache + mod_php3 + mod_frontpage From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 05/31/98

> That's possible. What's uglier? Code in PHP3 catering to a
> proprietary but popular third-party module? PHP3 possibly leaving fds
> open for subprocesses? (I still haven't read enough of the PHP3 code
> to see why this is a problem at all.) Are the Apache fd pool
> functions so slow that they can't be used, which seems to be the most
> proper answer?

Hrm, no I don't think they are too slow. This might be the right way to
solve this problem. Use the Apache pfopen() and popenf() functions
instead of fopen() and open() throughout PHP when we are running as an
Apache module. We'll have to play with this a bit.

-Rasmus