Bug #66232 [NEW]: proc_open: Inconsistent handling of EOFs on pipes

From: php-bugs at jbeekman dot nl Operating system: Linux 3.11.4-vhost-blk+ x86_64 PHP version: 5.5Git-2013-12-04 (Git) Package: Streams related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:proc_open: Inconsistent handling of EOFs on pipes Description: ------------ When a program executed with proc_open closes an output pipe, PHP sometimes incorrectly reports that the stream has not reached EOF and at other times it's stuck in a blocking read. Attached are 5 test programs and a test script: * The closewait program is a test program that writes a specified number of bytes to STDOUT, closes STDOUT, and sleeps for a specified time. * The fifotest* programs are used to test the operation of named pipes (FIFOs). The C and PHP version are very similar. just opening a specified file and reading from it in 64-byte chunks until error/EOF. * The pipetest* programs are used to test the operation of unnamed pipes (pipes). The C version uses pipe() to create the pipe and fork() to give one end to a child process. The PHP version uses proc_open() to do the same. Both programs use the same logic as the fifotest* programs to read from the pipe. * The test.sh script compiles the C programs and runs the C and PHP programs with different parameters. From the tests, you can see that the FIFOs work the same in both C and PHP, but that the pipe has some erratic behavior. In one case it exits after reading all the data from the pipe, but does not indicate EOF. In two other cases it blocks after reading all the data from the pipe until the child process exits. From `man 7 pipe': "[I/O on pipes and FIFOs] The only difference between pipes and FIFOs is the manner in which they are created and opened. Once these tasks have been accomplished, I/O on pipes and FIFOs has exactly the same semantics." There is no posix_pipe() (see bug #60896), so I can't test whether there is an issue with pipes in general or just with proc_open(). Test script: --------------- git commit 00a7b1ff (branch PHP-5.5 as of 2013-12-3 16:36:07 PST) Configure Command: './configure' '--disable-all' '--disable-cgi' '--enable-cli' Download all of the following and save them under the specified name in the same folder and then: chmod ugo+x test.sh; ./test.sh ** unable to post links because of bugs.php.net spam detection ** Expected result: ---------------- ===>FIFO test (C) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>FIFO test (PHP) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>pipe test (C) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>pipe test (PHP) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 real less than 1 user irrelevant sys irrelevant Actual result: -------------- ===>FIFO test (C) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>FIFO test (PHP) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>pipe test (C) n: 63 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 ===>pipe test (PHP) n: 63 EOF: 0 n: 64 n: 0 EOF: 1 n: 64 n: 1 EOF: 1 real 2.13 user 0.04 sys 0.06 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66232&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66232&r=mysqlcfg