Is mod_php support ever going to happen?

[Nick Johnson]

Hi,

I'm running PHP5 as an apache DSO, and I would very much like to not
have to set up a seperate CGI version of PHP just for mapscript related
stuff. Is support for php mapscript in DSO mode ever going to occur?
It's been 'soon' for a long time now, and from what I can tell,
nothing's happening.

I have some knowledge of PHP internals - is there anything I can do to
help it along?

Also, I'm curious what the problem is in the first place: this problem
occurs even when running apache in prefork mode - meaning no threads,
only forked processes. What is it that mapscript is doing that causes it
to crash? My best guess is that it's treating module startup and
shutdown badly, and ends up sharing handles on things. When apache
starts up, the parent apache process loads the DSOs and fires their
module startup functions, then forks its children. As a result, all the
children end up with all the handles and resources allocated in the
module startup - if this includes things that each should have their own
handles for (sockets, for example), the result could be a real mess.

Can anyone confirm if this is the case, or if it's something else?

Thanks,


Nick Johnson