What are you trying to do exactly?
The engine only needs to read from such a file handle and feed that
data into its lexer and parser.

--Wez.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:22:58 +0200 (IST), Stanislav Malyshev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WF>>The idea is that the zend engine should only call the functions in
> WF>>zend_stream.c to access the script input.  The fixup function is
> 
> But file_handle is not used only for input. There are a lof of other
> things that can be done with handle. Getting stat, for example, or
> seeking. It's possible to do it with FILE * and with php_stream, but not
> with the result of the fixup function. Actually, after fixup function it
> is impossible to do anything but read and close with the handle. I think
> it's very wrong.
> 
> WF>>designed to promote FILE* or file descriptors up to something
> WF>>compatible with its stdio stream reading functions.  Filenames are
> WF>>handed out to PHP and opened up using the streams layer.
> WF>>
> WF>>The rule for the fixup function is that it either errors out, or sets
> WF>>up the zend_file_handle so that zend_stream_XXX functions will work.
> 
> But this means if you get a file handle which is ZEND_HANDLE_STREAM, you
> cannot use it as a stream - it might be result of stream open, in which
> case handle is php_stream *, or result of fixup, in which case is't FILE
> *. Don't you think it's wrong?
> 
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115
>

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