okay, CC-ed the list. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, > > Please do continue this discussion on internals, there are no valid > reason to go private. > > Thanks for your understanding, > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <i...@tyrael.hu> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> I remember you recently discussed some file duplication (dup2) > proposals. > >> Did you arrive at some conclusion? Do you want to write an RFC about it? > If > >> you want it to be in 5.4 - subject to a vote to see if it's accepted - > it is > >> necessary to have it quite soon. If it's not ready or no conclusion was > >> reached, it's OK, we can get back to it later :) > >> > > > > Hi. > > I somehow changed my mind on the original implementation. > > it would be useful to have functions like fileno and dup2, but they > should > > have been added to the dio extension. > > what I really think we need in the core is the possibility to duplicate, > > replace streams, with that in hand, one could replace STDIN and so > without > > having to bother with the low level posix functions, and that could work > on > > windows also (dupHandle() in TSRM/tsrm_win32.c could work). > > but this is where I'm stuck. mapping simple C/posix functions to php is > > somehow manageable for me, but I don't know enough php internal stuff to > > properly introduce such a feature. > > of course I could write the RFC, but it's no point in it, if it isn't > viable > > from the technical POV. > > I will also submit my fileno, dup2 patches for inclusion to the dio > package > > maintainer Melanie. > > I've cc-ed her and Pierre to the discussion, I'm curious what they think > > about this. > > Tyrael > > > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org >
