Req #60896 [Com]: Provide a wrapper for pipe(2)

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60896&edit=1 ID: 60896 Comment by: olav dot morken at uninett dot no Reported by: phihag at phihag dot de Summary: Provide a wrapper for pipe(2) Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: POSIX related Operating System: Unix PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Support for unnamed pipes are useful with pcntl_fork(). That would allow for easy communication between parent and child processes. A workaround is to use socket_create_pair(). However, sockets are not as lightweight as pipes. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-01-27 16:33:39] cataphract@php.net Note the most common use case is covered by proc_open ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-01-26 23:28:00] phihag at phihag dot de Description: ------------ Currently, there does not seem to be a way to create an anonymous pipe (which is particularily) via the pipe(2) system call. There should be a wrapper for pipe and optionally pipe2 in php. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pipe.html for the POSIX spec. Test script: --------------- <? list($readfd, $writefd) = posix_pipe(); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60896&edit=1