I mean bug #44942. Sorry. Also to clarify for non C devs. A handle could be an opened file, a pipe or similar resources. Also important to keep in mind that users have to pass their own streams to proc_open if they like to pass or receive data.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > hi! > > While looking at the bug #63073, I was wondering if we could simply do > not pass open handles to the newly created child process. > > The main issue in this bug is the session related handles. They are > passed to the parent process, which hangs until their are closed. It > indeed does not happen (usually) until the end of the request. It > makes these functions almost unusable as soon as sessions are used. > > These functions are about calling external commands and I fail to see > which usage may require to access PHP related handles. Does anyone see > any issue by not passing them anymore? And fixing this bug (and a > couple of other I think)? > > It is windows only. Not sure if we do the same on other platforms. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
