ID:               15171
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status:           Closed
 Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
 Operating System: Tru64 UNIX 5.0a
 PHP Version:      4.0.6
 Assigned To:      hholzgra
 New Comment:

proc_open is in CVS and will be in PHP 4.3


Previous Comments:
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[2002-04-28 20:08:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

proc_open() does this.

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[2002-03-19 16:29:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I too would be greatly appreciative for a bi-directional pipe.  In my
case I don't need a named pipe since each writer should be paired with
only one reader.  Therefore, I prefer to have call like the one you are
talking about where the pipe is essentially a pair of unnamed pipes to
a system command from my PHP script.

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[2002-01-22 16:20:19] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anything you could come up with would be great. There are times when
you want to spawn a program and both read and write to stdin/stdout.
Without a bidirectional pipe its quite messy to do.  None of the other
PHP functions come close to addressing it (exec, system, etc.)

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[2002-01-22 15:10:02] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bidirectional popen() is not portable, 
but i'm working on a general pipe() 
function ...

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[2002-01-22 14:06:31] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

With PHP running under Tru64 UNIX, popen only supports "r" or "w"...it
will not support "r+", "w+", or "rw".

Yet according to the Tru64 popen man page, Tru64 supports bidirectional
pipes and can take rw (unless I am reading it wrong).  Yet when I try
it with PHP, it tells me it is an invalid argument.

>From the man page:

  The popen() function creates a pipe between the calling program and a
shell
  command to be executed.  It returns a pointer to a FILE structure for
the
  stream.

  If the type parameter is the value r, the calling program can read
from the
  standard output of the command by reading from the returned file
stream. If
  the type parameter is the value w, the calling program can write to
the
  standard input of the command by writing to the returned file
stream.

  Because open files are shared, a type r command can be used as an
input
  filter and a type w command as an output filter.


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