Re: Disable STDOUT

Maybe I should write a function disable all open file descriptors instead, since traditionally that's how it is done. However, I thought PHP closes STDIN after it's initial read - but I might be wrong. "Patrick O'Lone" <polone@townnews.com> wrote in message news:20020708052214.279.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hey PHP developers! > > I wrote function to disable STDOUT from the PHP binary. It just sets the > php_output_set_status() flag option to disable output. However, I don't know > if PHP continues to buffer the output somewhere. Does anyone know? BTW - > I've written this function because I want to write a daemon using PHP, but > initiating a fork'd process from a TTY still causes PHP to deliver output to > the STDOUT. It's true, I could be more "unix-y" about the situation and do: > "php script.php &>/dev/null", but I'd rather be lazy and just type > "php > script.php" and let it daemonize properly. In addition, I know think this > disassociates the TTY from STDERR - so runtime errors may still be > generated. > > > PHP_FUNCTION(ob_disable_stdout) > { > zval **zv_flag; > int flag; > > switch(ZEND_NUM_ARGS()) { > > case 0: > flag = 0; > break; > > case 1: > if (zend_get_parameters_ex(1, &zv_flag) == FAILURE) { > RETURN_FALSE; > } > convert_to_long_ex(zv_flag); > flag = Z_LVAL_PP(zv_flag); > break; > > default: > WRONG_PARAM_COUNT; > break; > > } > > php_output_set_status(flag); > > } > /* }}} */ > >