#48472 [Com]: fgets/fread behaviour on socket timeout undocumented

ID: 48472 Comment by: nick dot telford at gmail dot com Reported By: nick dot telford at gmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: CentOS 5.3 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Forgot to mention. Bug #31897 seems related but slightly different - as it was fixed and closed when the docs about having to check stream_get_meta_data() was added to stream_set_timeout(). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-04 16:27:20] nick dot telford at gmail dot com Description: ------------ When using stream_set_timeout() to set a timeout on a stream it is documented that you need to check stream_get_meta_data() to see if the stream timed out. However, the behaviour of fgets/fread (in blocking mode) when the socket times out is not documented. At first, I assumed that the time out would be considered a "failure", which is documented in both fread and fgets as returning FALSE. However, after testing, it appears that both methods return an empty string when the socket times out. This is fine, because you can check to see if this was because of an EOF (using feof) or a timeout (stream_get_meta_data) after the method has returned. The only problem here is a lack of descriptive documentation. The behaviour of blocking read functions when the stream times out needs to be documented as this is a common scenario when working with socket streams. Regards, Nicholas Telford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48472&edit=1