On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
It has been suggested to me that pcntl support should be added to the php5 port. I was asked to add a +pcntl variant for this, but I'm inclined to just add pcntl support always, without needing a variant. pcntl support does not require any additional libraries. Are there any objections to enabling pcntl always? Any reason I shouldn't do that?
Given the stern warning on the php page about pcntl, and since php is almost always used in a webserver environment, I'd think it would be best to make this an optional variant, which must be explicitly enabled (+pcntl), rather than one which must be disabled as some others have suggested (+disable_pcntl).
Process Control support in PHP implements the Unix style of process creation, program execution, signal handling and process termination. Process Control should not be enabled within a webserver environment and unexpected results may happen if any Process Control functions are used within a webserver environment.
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