function.wincache-ucache-set fails to store array

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From manual page: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wincache-ucache-set.php

I've just spent a few hours trying to debug why an IIS server with wincache is hanging, and it all came down to 1 single line

This is a test line that can hang my Wincache / PHP 8.4 / IIS setup

$test_array = ['simple_string'];
$result = wincache_ucache_set('pjs_test_queue', $test_array, $expiration);

This is an array. I have many thousands of non-array items in there and Wordpress strings/articles etc., all in the same instance. No issues at all for anything else. But, add that array, and things just halt. The call never returns. This was a simple test array I did to attempt to replicate the issue. My array was only a few elements, but slightly more complicated. If you change the array to a string in the same code for sanity check, it works fine.

Now, the docs all say it is supposed to support this and internally serialise, but, something seems wrong with my builds, or the docs are not correct?

The fix? If you manually serialize the array FIRST, so

$result = wincache_ucache_set('pjs_test_queue', serialize($test_array), $expiration);

It'll work just fine.

So, I now have a work around and I will not trust the internal serialization that is supposed to happen, but I am reporting here in case it is a general bug that needs to be fixed. Obviously, very, very simple to replicate and test. 2 lines of code.

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