Re: [PHP-DEV] Console Work From: Jason Greene (usrgre-php <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/01

> My last 'feature request' is that of either a select () ability (I see 4.0.6
> has a function called select in ext/standard/file.c (and ext/sockets/???.c) but
> I have not played with it), or another ability to read from files / fifos /
> character devices in a non-blocking way. Particularly, /dev/modem work is to my
> knowledge impossible at present

oh ya, socket_select in the sockets module is a full implementation of the C select
 
> To round up, an ncurses module would be nice, a select function like that in C
/ext/ncurses

> would be sex (!), a fork function (like that in C..). Thanks for your time
> taken reading the e-mail, and thanks for a bloody brilliant language (I have
> used it for web work too). If PHP had the above functionality, I can't see much
> left that stops it from being a rather complete and feature-packed general
> shell scripting language! (doh! signal handling would be nice too!)
>
> Cherio,
>
> -dw
>
> PS> Another thing I noticed, I wrote a diary.php script that allows me 'ninja
> speed' access to an OpenSSL'd diary in a very secure way. The code behind it is
> relatively tight, yet when I run it strace'd, I notice that there are a good 50
> or so getuid ()'s before the EDITOR is exec'd. The speed at which the program
> runs is fine, but I was just wondering if it might indicate an underlying
> problem, or is that just the nature of interpreted languages (not very
> optimal)! On request, I'll make diary.php available, I intend sticking it on a
> public site soon anyway.
>
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