windows sockets. The winsock implementation will only work with sockets;
our implementation works with sockets and file descriptors.
By association, stream_select() will now operate correctly with files, pipes and sockets.
This change required linking against the winsock2 library. In terms of
compatibility, only older versions of windows 95 do not have winsock2
installed by default. It is available as a redistributable file, and is most likely installed by any OS patches (eg: Internet Explorer) applied by the user.
Also, add a win32 compatible pipe test when opening a stream from a pipe. This test will only work on NT, win2k and XP platforms. Without this test, interleaved fread() and select() calls would cause the read buffer to be clobbered. I will be working on a fix for this issue for win9x.
mysql_ping() as a more efficient alternative to using mysql_stat() to
check if the server is alive and then calling mysql_(real_)?connect() to
reconnect.
Simple tests of opening pconnects indicate that only about 10k of data per
ping needs to be returned to the client per connection check, rather than
about 110k per status check.
Major changes to _restore_connection_defaults
- added code block to finds and releases the active mysql result (if any)
- this should prevent the 'Commands out of sync' error that would be
raised when a query is made when unfreed results exist
Minor changes to _restore_connection_defaults
- replaced calls to mysql_real_query with mysql_query
- we probably should not be using mysql_real_query without checking to
see if we have a version that supports the function.
- given that we control the query strings here and do not need to
worry about binary safety, I am using mysql_query instead
- see the bug report for further discussion
#- This will remove the annoying notices, while this function is used in
# a lot of scripts. There is not reason why we should discontinue it's use
# as it works perfect for about 99% of the time.
