More userfriendly about pthreads

[krakjoe]

Hi there,

Thanks for your kind comments ...

pthreads is still in development: PHP is the most hostile environment possible in which to implement a useful, working threading API. As such, it simply isn't possible to provide the same kind of read/write access to shared memory that is possible when using native posix threading, nor will it ever be reliably.

The documentation is also somewhat out of date and you'll find the code in git is different to that described in the documentation because the documentation relates to the last release. Since the last release, read access is granted to all contexts with a reference to a thread, imported threads are now the same type of object as the user creates, joining results in a join of the threading context with the calling context in respect to the members defined in the thread, and pthreads has overridden the functionality of the private and protected keywords to provide synchronized methods ( protected ) and private methods that can only be executed by the threading context.

I don't really need any help with pthreads, by all means send fixes, but the project is moving at a speed I can work with around work and that suits me for now. I'm glad you're interested in pthreads, and by all means send your suggestions to me and they will be considered, but designing such an API isn't an easy thing to do and I think everyone would feel better knowing it wasn't written by novices :)