I remember a while back PHP crapped out on threadsdev and I tried to warn someone but I was too late and I think some things were tampered with. At least I think that's what my memory is telling me If you run php as an apache module you are pretty safe, but if you use the CGI version you are at a greater risk of having it mess up.
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