Re: CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote:
> Hi internals
>
> We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740)
> that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
> This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line
> argument.
> However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP
> will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality
> it never loaded properly.
> I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a
> clean solution isn't straight-forward.
> Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least
> PHP 5.5, a long time.
> As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is already a
> suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z option in PHP
> 8.5 instead of fixing it.
>
> Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.
>
> Kind regards
> Niels
Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed?
--Larry Garfield
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