On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote:
> On 29 September 2017 at 07:46, nyamsprod the funky webmaster
> <nyamsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been following the resolution of this bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44392
>>
>> and it seems that there is no safe way to expose the internal
>> `SplFileObject` filepointer.
>
>
> It seems that people are scared to comment on a streams related question...
>
Nah, just distr... OOH SHINY!

> I'm not sure that making stream_* functions accept SplFileObject's
> would be an appropriate way to solve this problem; it's just too much
> of a hack.
>
Implementation wise, about as difficult as you'd imagine.  We have
php_stream_from_zval() which is a central place which could be made
smarter, though most (all?) stream related functions have IS_RESOURCE
checks that'd have to be dealt with, so it still means touching the
world.

> However, although it's not safe to expose the underlying file handle
> used by SplFileObject, I think it _might_ be safe to allow the
> SplFileObject to return a stream that represents the file, but with
> the necessary php_stream_ops that aren't safe to use replaced with NOP
> operations, similar to how it is done in the pgsql extension:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/879126a2cedef5b6e1c1f701ade17ca3da9a39ec/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c#L5406-L5409
>
I like this approach in the abstract (though I haven't paged in the
entire problem space yet).  A proxy wrapper provides (possibily
implemeted on the SplFileObject itself) keeps the scope of the change
localized to SPL and has little residual hack smell.

-Sara

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