Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about socket ext. file descriptors From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 03/29/01

Why do you need to rely on such behavior? Are you trying to do something
naught? :)
I think in general it's not a good idea to rely on the value and type of
resources (even though this is an integer).
I'm not quite sure why it returns integers and not resources. Looks like a
bad thing to me as the extension can easily have file descriptor leaks. The
socket should really be saved either in the resource list or in a socket
extension local list in order to be able to cleanup at shutdown.
I think in the meanwhile you should assume it might change to using resources.

Andi

At 10:56 PM 3/28/2001 -0800, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:

>At present, the sockets extension uses integers as file descriptors
>(e.g. socket() return value). At first I thought maybe they should
>have been resources until I tried writing some socket code, when I
>realized that it's easier under many circumstances for them to be
>ints. Is this going to be behaviour that can be relied upon?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Torben
>
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