Well we're now 3 days later and no one pointed out a good reason :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wez Furlong" <wez@thebrainroom.com>
To: "Bernard Fouché" <bernard.fouche@kuantic.com>; <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CLI: constants STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR do not point to
df 0, 1 & 2
> The dup() is there "just-in-case" something breaks during PHP shutdown.
> I don't remember now exactly what the potential problem(s) might have
> been, so perhaps the dup is overly cautious.
>
> So, I don't have a problem eliminating it, unless someone points out
> a good reason to keep it :-)
>
> --Wez.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernard Fouché" <bernard.fouche@kuantic.com>
> To: <internals@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:24 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] CLI: constants STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR do not point to
df
> 0, 1 & 2
>
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm trying to run a php script from xinetd (Fedora Linux). I need to
close
> > stdin, stdout & stderr since I want to close
> > the socket established with the caller process (I have a long processing
> to
> > do locally, I need to release a remote
> > resource & closing the connection is the only way I can do it).
> >
> > I've tried :
> >
> > fclose(STDIN); fclose(STDOUT); fclose(STDERR);
> >
> > It does not work, the socket is still up & running.
> >
> > When I run strace(1), I see that I'm closing fds 4, 5 & 6 (fd 3 is the
fd
> of
> > the script being read) and not
> > fd 0, 1 & 2.
> >
> > It seems that CLI PHP calls dup(2) to get duplicates of fd 0, 1 & 2 and
so
> > these 3 fds are totally
> > unreachable from the script itself. I'm not used to php source code, but
I
> > think that the problem
> > comes from getting constants STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR thru filter code
> > generation used
> > by "php://stdin" etc. and no provision is done for the first calls: a
> dup(2)
> > is automatically used.
> >
> > So constants STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR are not pointing to the correct
fd's,
> > but dup's.
> >
> > Can this be fixed or should I consider using another solution? (coding
my
