note 61952 added to function.proc-open

The following code works for piping large amounts of data through a filtering program. I find it very weird that such a lot of code is needed for this task. On entry, $stdin contains the standard input for the program. Tested on Debian Linux with PHP 5.0.5. $descriptorSpec = array(0 => array("pipe", "r"), 1 => array('pipe', 'w'), 2 => array('pipe', 'w')); $process = proc_open($command, $descriptorSpec, $pipes); $txOff = 0; $txLen = strlen($stdin); $stdout = ''; $stdoutDone = FALSE; $stderr = ''; $stderrDone = FALSE; $done = 0; stream_set_blocking($pipes[0], 0); // Make stdin/stdout/stderr non-blocking stream_set_blocking($pipes[1], 0); stream_set_blocking($pipes[2], 0); while (TRUE) { $rx = array(); // The program's stdout/stderr if (!$stdoutDone) $rx[] = $pipes[1]; if (!$stderrDone) $rx[] = $pipes[2]; $tx = array(); // The program's stdin if ($txOff < $txLen) $tx[] = $pipes[0]; stream_select($rx, $tx, $ex = NULL, NULL, NULL); // Block til r/w possible if (!empty($tx)) { fwrite($pipes[0], substr($stdin, $txOff, 4096)); $txOff += 4096; if ($txOff >= $txLen) fclose($pipes[0]); } foreach ($rx as $r) { if ($r == $pipes[1]) { $stdout .= fread($pipes[1], 8192); if (feof($pipes[1])) { fclose($pipes[1]); $stdoutDone = TRUE; } } else if ($r == $pipes[2]) { $stderr .= fread($pipes[2], 8192); if (feof($pipes[2])) { fclose($pipes[2]); $stderrDone = TRUE; } } } if ($txOff >= $txLen && $stdoutDone && $stderrDone) break; } $returnValue = proc_close($process); ---- Server IP: 217.160.72.57 Probable Submitter: 85.181.13.141 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.proc-open.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61952 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61952&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61952&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php