Support PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS on Windows
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Feature
OS: Windows
SAPI: cli_server
Status: Verified
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 40.4k
- Forks
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- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Description
The docs say that this mechanism doesn’t work on Windows, but this would be just as helpful to Windows devs.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the documentation for PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS and the existing CLI server implementation to understand how worker processes are handled and where the Windows limitation is enforced. The issue does not name files or tests; done would require working Windows support and documentation that no longer excludes Windows.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, php
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100