note 74370 rejected from function.fpassthru by bjori

Note Submitter: public at telcontar dot net ---- In PHP 4 (4.4.4 tested as a CGI, Apache 2, Linux), use of both fpassthru() and fread() in a loop suffer the SAME memory "leakage". This is characterised by all data that is sent to the client also being kept inside PHP and not released. It would appear to be a failure to garbage collect the data. In PHP 5 (5.2.1 tested as a CGI, Apache 2, Linux) this flaw is resolved in both cases. Neither fpassthru() nor fread() in a loop "leak" memory during execution. The issue of which one to use appears not to be an issue of memory as both were equally flawed in PHP 4 and both are equally fixed in PHP 5. Speed, is left to a reader exercise to test in the latest PHPs.