posix_kill
This is still not a solution: if I listen to commands on a pipe and output status on a separate pipe, PHP will block on both opens because something else has not already connected to this pipe. Because I can't do a low-level fcntl() to to set O_NONBLOCK or something like it, this always locks up and is really stupid. The only way I can get it to work is to spawn seperate subshells with system() and have them cat, or echo respectively and then the pipes work properly...usually? Its alot of trouble that we can't set the blocking on the open!!
posix_mkfifo
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
posix_mkfifo — Crear un archivo especial fifo (un pipe con nombre)
Descripción
bool posix_mkfifo
( string $nombre_ruta
, int $modo
)
posix_mkfifo() crea un archivo FIFO especial que existe en el sistema de archivos y actúa como un punto de comunicación bi-direccional para los procesos.
Lista de parámetros
- nombre_ruta
-
Ruta al archivo FIFO.
- modo
-
El segundo parámetro modo tiene que ser definido en notación octal (p.ej. 0644). El permiso del FIFO recién creado depende también del valor umask() actual. Los permisos del archivo creado son (modo & ~umask).
Valores retornados
Devuelve TRUE si todo se llevó a cabo correctamente, FALSE en caso de fallo.
Notes
Note: Cuando safe-mode (modo-seguro) está activado, PHP comprueba si los archivos o directorios que va a utilizar tienen la misma UID que el script que está siendo ejecutado.
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User Contributed Notesposix_mkfifo
tech at kwur dot com
20-Sep-2007 07:44
20-Sep-2007 07:44
Enric Jaen
16-Aug-2007 07:22
16-Aug-2007 07:22
A way to have a non-blocking pipe reader is to check first if the pipe exists. If so, then read from the pipe, otherwise do other stuff. This will work assuming that the writer creates the pipe, writes on it, and after that deletes the pipe.
This is a blocking writer:
<?php
$pipe="/tmp/pipe";
$mode=0600;
if(!file_exists($pipe)) {
// create the pipe
umask(0);
posix_mkfifo($pipe,$mode);
}
$f = fopen($pipe,"w");
fwrite($f,"hello"); //block until there is a reader
unlink($pipe); //delete pipe
?>
And this is the non-blocking reader:
<?php
$pipe="/tmp/pipe";
if(!file_exists($pipe)) {
echo "I am not blocked!";
}
else {
//block and read from the pipe
$f = fopen($pipe,"r");
echo fread($f,10);
}
?>
Uther Pendragon
19-May-2007 12:12
19-May-2007 12:12
Note (quoted from `man 7 pipe` on debian linux):
"On some systems (but not Linux), pipes are bidirectional: data can be transmitted in both directions between the pipe ends. According to POSIX.1-2001, pipes only need to be unidirectional. Portable applications should avoid reliance on bidirectional pipe semantics."
Linux pipes are NOT bidirectional.
Also, it appears to me that the use of fifo (named) pipes in php is pretty pointless as there appears to be NO way of determining whether opening (let alone reading) from it will block. stream_select SHOULD be able to accomplish this, unfortunatly you cannot get to this point because even trying to OPEN a pipe for read will block until there is a writer.
I even tried to use popen("cat $name_of_pipe", 'r'), and even it blocked until it was opened for write by another process.