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Bug #18221 Massive slowdown in fwrite() when not printing any text
Submitted: 2002-07-08 06:07 UTC Modified: 2002-07-11 01:47 UTC
From: rca at spin dot ch Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 4.2.1 OS: Linux 2.2.16
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-07-08 06:07 UTC] rca at spin dot ch 
Try the following code snippet on its own page:


$filename = "foo.txt";
$content = "blah";

$fd = fopen($filename, "a");
fwrite($fd, $content);
fwrite($fd, "\n");
fclose($fd);


You'll notice that the file is created just as intended, but the browser will be left waiting for data for a LONG time. However, if you add this to the end of the script:

print "test";

The page is finished and sent to the browser immediately, no delays at all.

This was found by one of our students, not by me :)

Verified on PHP 4.1.2 using Apache 1.3.12 and 1.3.20, the former on kernel 2.2.16, the latter 2.4.2.

PHP configure line:  './configure' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-apxs' '--with-swf=/usr/lib/ swf' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/php.ini' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd=/usr/' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '-- with-ttf' '--with-zlib' '--with-t1lib' '--with-ming' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/php.ini' '--enable- trans-sid' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr/include/openssl'

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 [2002-07-08 06:08 UTC] derick@php.net 
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 [2002-07-09 04:46 UTC] rca at spin dot ch 
Also tested this in 4.2.1 on the same Apache/Linux combination. It's still a bug.
 [2002-07-09 08:09 UTC] sniper@php.net 
I can not reproduce this with latest CVS checkout of PHP (php 4.3.0-dev) so please try this snapshot: 

http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz

And with what browser did this happen with? I get immediate
'Document contained no data' error with Netscape..

You should also update Apache to 1.3.26..as those versions you have are too old.
 [2002-07-10 02:17 UTC] rca at spin dot ch 
Hmm, now that certainly sheds a new light on all this. With MSIE 5.0/win32 I can't reproduce the bug either, but any version of Opera for win32 or Linux will hang. I couldn't try Mozilla yet, but I'm guessing that I'll also get a "Document contained no data" error.

So is this the browsers' fault for not agreeing on a standard way to deal with blank pages or PHP's fault for producing them? 

I've had include()'d files (which don't produce output except for blank lines) work just fine, showing a blank across all browsers. Just when these filesystem functions are used there's unpredictable behavior.
 [2002-07-11 01:47 UTC] sniper@php.net 
It's just Opera specific, and especially Opera 6.x specific
since I couldn't reproduce it with 5.05. And it doesn't really slowdown or anything. It just doesn't update the 
mouse pointer. :)
 
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