Re: Funny php://stdout behaviour

Hi Richard, thank you for your answer: >> When calling the php4 code below, sometimes the browser receives >> -the "HTML estandar text" >> -sometimes the "Text generated from PHP" (but NEVER both!) >> -and ocassionaly the error: >> "Warning: fopen("php://stdout","w") - Bad file descriptor in >> /home/sites/site74/web/_proc/pruebas/stdout-test.php on line 7 >> unable to open device" > >I actually was getting prompted to download the .php file sometimes... > >That was a known bug with an earlier release of PHP4 under high load, I >think... Or maybe that was the one where turning the engine on/off in >different domains was messing up?... Or maybe both conditions had to be >true. > >Meanwhile, not sure how fopen() is involved. > >Maybe try whatever corresponds to stdout on your OS, be it "/dev/0" or >"/dev/stdout" or whatever -- Just to see if you can duplicate it with the >normal file-system stuff. I tried "/dev/stdout" as the manual states, but I get an error in PHP4 (I think it works for PHP3). Even in Windows similar behaviour occurs. > >And try the same thing with some other files/pages etc. > The same occurs with other files. >One thing that occurs to me -- stdout starts off by being the browser, so >it's kinda funky to open it -- You've already got it open... I *think* it >really only makes sense to fopen() stdout from the command line. At least, >I'm not clear on what it would mean to open it from a HTTP environment... You may be right, it's quite weird. The use it was intended for was to generate an HTML page on the fly or a static one, according to certain conditions. > >-- >Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ >Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: >http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm >Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm -- Saludos, Rubén Blanco. ______________________________________________________ A r t e k - 928.52.20.77 - http://www.artek.es