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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Implementing fdopen in PHP
From: lbarnaud@php.net (Arnaud Le Blanc)

Le dimanche 14 mars 2010 à 17:38 +1100, Dennis Hotson a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> It's my first post, so go easy on me. :-)
> 
> I'm trying to implement PHP support for github's erlang RPC server called
> ernie.
> So basically I've been porting the following ruby code to PHP:
> http://github.com/mojombo/ernie/blob/master/lib/ernie.rb
> 
> The problem I'm having is on line 127-128:
>   input = IO.new(3)
> 
> I believe this is equivalent to fdopen() in C, but there doesn't appear to
> be any way to do this in PHP.
> 
> So basically, I'm a bit stuck and looking for advice on how to proceed.
> Should I implement this in core PHP or as an extension? What's the best way
> to get a function like this into PHP?

Hi,

I guess that this can go to some future PHP release, and in a small
extension if you want to have it in current / older versions too. You
can implement it with php_stream_fopen_from_fd(). 

Regards,