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Bug #46049 feof() hangs
Submitted: 2008-09-11 12:13 UTC Modified: 2008-11-24 15:39 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: sebastian@php.net Assigned: dsp (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Streams related
PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2008-09-11 (CVS) OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2008-09-11 12:13 UTC] sebastian@php.net
Description:
------------
The code below works fine with PHP 5.2.6 (and earlier), but not with the unreleased PHP 5.2.7 and PHP 5.3.0:

    892 $handle = @fopen($url, 'r');
    893
    894 if (!$handle) {
    895     throw new RuntimeException(
    896       'Could not connect to the Selenium RC server.'
    897     );
    898 }
    899
    900 stream_set_blocking($handle, 1);
    901 stream_set_timeout($handle, 0, $this->timeout);
    902
    903 $info     = stream_get_meta_data($handle);
    904 $response = '';
    905
    906 while ((!feof($handle)) && (!$info['timed_out'])) {
    907     $response .= fgets($handle, 4096);
    908     $info = stream_get_meta_data($handle);
    909 }
    910
    911 fclose($handle);

The code above hangs with PHP 5.2.7 and PHP 5.3.0 in line 906 as shown using Xdebug's tracing:

    fopen() Driver.php:892
    stream_set_blocking() Driver.php:900
    stream_set_timeout() Driver.php:901
    stream_get_meta_data() Driver.php:903
    feof() Driver.php:906
    fgets() Driver.php:907
    stream_get_meta_data() Driver.php:908
    feof() Driver.php:906

The second feof() call above hangs.

More information can be found here:

  - http://static.phpunit.de/trace.818532121.xt
  - http://static.phpunit.de/strace.txt

Changing the loop to

    while (!$info['eof'] && !$info['timed_out']) {
        $response .= fgets($handle, 4096);
        $info = stream_get_meta_data($handle);
    }

fixes the problem. This means a difference between feof() and $info['eof'].


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 [2008-09-11 12:17 UTC] tony2001@php.net
David, it appears that this problem is caused by this patch of yours:
http://news.php.net/php.cvs/52689
Take a look at it please.
 [2008-10-28 22:08 UTC] jani@php.net
David, I guess we just have to revert that bad patch of yours then?
 [2008-11-05 13:43 UTC] dsp@php.net
Jani: I think it's an issue with the ssl socks, as my patch didn't patch 
those. I try to have time to have a look on this, but I 
cannot reproduce the patch yet even though I sit down with sebstian and 
try to figure out what's going wrong.
 [2008-11-18 23:46 UTC] felipe@php.net
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/


 [2008-11-21 17:46 UTC] lbarnaud@php.net
Shorter reproduce code:

<?php
$socket = stream_socket_client('tcp://www.php.net:80');
var_dump(feof($socket));
?>

The feof() will block until timeout is reached.

David, your fix correctly made feof() behave as documented (blocks until timeout is reached if no data is available), but should feof() really blocks here ? It seems it never behaved as documented (checked php4.4, 5.1, 5.2.6).
 [2008-11-24 02:19 UTC] dsp@php.net
If everybody is fine with that, I will revert the patch.
 [2008-11-24 15:39 UTC] dsp@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Patch was reverted
 
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