Yes, so you can do stuff like: fwrite(STDERR, "an error!") without having to manually open and pass around the stream handle.
--Wez. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 May 2004 13:07 > To: Wez Furlong; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Problem in CLI > > Why are we creating a resource for these descriptors? Is it for the > constants in PHP? > > Andi > > At 12:21 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: > >When STDERR gets dtor'd, the descriptor is closed, so the > leak messages are > >heading into the void. > > > >The reason for the change was so that PHP CLI could be > launched from inetd and > >be able to close descriptors. > > > >A (somewhat hacky) fix would be to skip closing the > descriptor if it is the > >stderr descriptor and if PHP is in request shutdown. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
