Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75538&edit=1
ID: 75538
User updated by: samuel dot chemla at orange dot com
Reported by: samuel dot chemla at orange dot com
Summary: stream_set_blocking() always returning false for
files on windows
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: Streams related
Operating System: Windows
PHP Version: 7.1.11
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Hi,
I'm building a server with https://github.com/reactphp/socket.
This server accepts connection from many clients and stream files to them (or receive files from
them).
As it handles all clients connections in one loop, all the code must be non blocking to achieve
optimal performance.
The most straightforward way to serve files is then to use https://github.com/reactphp/stream with a fopen()
resource, configured in a non blocking mode.
By the way react/stream doc says fopen() may block, but I see a non documented "n" mode
when using fopen (see https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/2283b6ff534e173bc56dc73137fedd19f37fc979/main/streams/plain_wrapper.c#L105)
if (strchr(mode, 'n')) {
flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
}
It actually works on linux, but not on windows.
$fileRes = fopen("bar.txt", 'wbn');
if ($fileRes === false) {
throw new Exception();
}
var_dump(stream_get_meta_data($fileRes));
will return :
array(9) {
...
'blocked' =>
bool(true)
...
}
(Maybe I should file another report on php documentation for this?)
https://github.com/reactphp/filesystem offers a
non blocking filesystem acces, but it seems very experimental, complex, and require eio extention or
create processes to read files.
I was looking for a simple solution with pure php (and fopen)
Previous Comments:
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[2017-11-20 19:36:47] ab@php.net
Thanks for the report. Could you give an extended example in PHP on the topic you've mentioned?
Thanks
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[2017-11-19 16:39:27] samuel dot chemla at orange dot com
Description:
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Tested on PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0.24 & PHP 7.1.11.
stream_set_blocking() return always false for files (used with fopen()) on windows.
It seems to work on linux.
This is related to an old bug marked as "not a bug", but I prefered opening this new one.
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50856
Is this really not a bug? If so, then the doc shoud be updated to clarify why.
IMHO this is a bug because non blocking local file streams is a desired feature, even on windows.
Use case: dealing with multiple files reading and/or writing in parallel
Test script:
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$fileRes = fopen("foo.txt", 'wb');
if ($fileRes === false) {
throw new Exception();
}
var_dump(stream_set_blocking($fileRes, 0));
Expected result:
----------------
bool(true)
Actual result:
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bool(false)
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