I've been doing a good deal of socket work lately and have some minor stream socket server additions to float, but before I do so I need to add some tests. None of the standard stream socket functionality currently has any tests (stream_socket_pair() being the exception), so there's not much to work from. Anyway, my questions are ...
(1) Is it acceptable to briefly use proc_open in a .phpt file to fire up a socket client to test stream socket server functionality? Any secondary processes would only live for a few milliseconds ... (2) Alternatively, is it preferable to only test that the stream resources are created and that errors are triggered as expected when problems arise instead of testing actual functionality that could be considered the underlying OS's responsibility?
