Re: [PHP-DEV] Safe to load extension twice ? From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/01

> From a technical aspect, is it safe to load a particular
> extension twice ? Does it only hit performance (loading the
> .dll/.so twice) or are there some other caveats which can lead to
> unexpected behaviour ?
>
> Example is an extension already loaded in php.ini via
> extension=foo.so and in the script its also loaded via
> dl('foo.so');
>
> Will this do any harm ?

You will see lots and lots of errors about functions being redefined, so
yes, it is a very bad idea to load a shared library twice.

-Rasmus 

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