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Subject: making system calls from a php extension
From: sosagabriel@gmail.com (Gabriel Sosa)

hello everyone!

I'm trying to gain some speed by moving a function from PHP legacy
code to C and making an extension. I'm trying to call *lynx* from the
command line since their C api isn't something soo nice likely to use
it as any other libXX

Currently in PHP I'm doing a system call by using *proc_open* and
sending and getting the response. Moving the code to C code I found
that I need a "bidirectional" popen to replicate the PHP behavior, and
since this is not allowed/implemented by default on POSIX environments
I'm forced to fork to get this working.
So back to my question: How feasible is to make fork calls on a PHP
extension? Can I just do it or should I use php_stream_* functions to
get a stream and make the system call? To avoid some questions the
main idea of this extension is to be used on POSIX environments, so
basically I dont care if this is not compatible with Windows.

Thanks for your time.



-- 
Gabriel Sosa
Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo. - Einstein