It should probably go into the engine.

--Wez.

On Apr 8, 2005 7:46 PM, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure. Wez or Sara know that part of the code best.
> I'll refrain from applying to the Zend Engine then or should I apply that
> patch anyway? It seems quite harmless either way...
> 
> Andi
> 
> At 04:58 PM 4/8/2005 +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> >OK - I found out that the fdopen() code is never called in the PHP
> >environment, so patch is not needed (PHP sets zend_file_handle always to
> >STREAM). But I still want to know for what extensions/functions the casts
> >from posix to stdio are needed- Will casting appear somewhere when the
> >user calls the userlevel-file-functions starting with fopen()?. It is hard
> >work to find out with simple search through CVS.
> >The only position I know is because of popen() etc. in the exec functions
> >which are stdio (posix variants are more complicated), which is the cause
> >for the bug report I mentioned.
> >
> >At 09:40 07.04.2005, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> >>I am fixing bug #32614: Problem, on the solaris platform fdopen() can
> >>fail even if fd is a correct file descriptor, when fd>255 (the well-known
> >>solaris stdio problem). The webserver of the user crashes because the
> >>return value of fdopen() is not checked for NULL when casting a stream
> >>from posix to stdio. After this fd==-1 and fp==NULL ==> further calls to
> >>fread/fwrite with this fp segfault.
> >>I committed the patches for PHP but I have no karme for "ZendEngine2".
> >>Can someone with karma submit this patch?
> >>
> >>According to this it would be interesting, WHEN some PHP/Zend code tries
> >>to cast a POSIX stream to stdio? In which extension/functions? Can this
> >>be fixed to only use posix IO? The zend engine itself should be safe
> >>since 4.3.3 and since PHP5.
> >>
> >>Does stream casts apply if a user uses the PHP user functions fopen,
> >>fread, fwrite? Since Saschas fix in PHP4 there this does not happen. What
> >>about PHP5?
> >>
> >>I would try to fix this everywhere in the future.
> >>
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> >>Uwe Schindler
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> >>Erlangen, Germany
> >>
> >>
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