Description:
------------
I am having an issue with PHP (cli) when using /dev/tty as the file. To run PHP code from STDIN, I am able to run the command as follows,

$ php
<?php
echo "hello world\n";
?>
<CTRL-D>
hello world
$

However, when run through /dev/tty, the following happens,

$ php /dev/tty
<?php
echo "hello world\n";
?>
<CTRL-D>
?php
echo "hello world\n";
?>
$

NOTE: The first character < is simply lost and php processes the input as plain text.

Problem:-

The problem lies in sapi/cli/php_cli.c where interpreter directive is removed,

        /* #!php support */
        c = fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp);
        if (c == '#' && (c = fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp)) == '!') {
                while (c != '\n' && c != '\r' && c != EOF) {
                        c = fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp);      /* skip to end of line */
                }
                /* handle situations where line is terminated by \r\n */
                if (c == '\r') {
                        if (fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp) != '\n') {
                                long pos = ftell(file_handle->handle.fp);
                                fseek(file_handle->handle.fp, pos - 1, SEEK_SET);
                        }
                }
                *lineno = 2;
        } else {
                rewind(file_handle->handle.fp);
        }

rewind() on /dev/tty or any named pipe would fail, causing the first 1-2 bytes to be lost.

Solution:-

We should test if the file is seekable, if it is not, we can process it similar to a pipe.

--- php_cli.c.orig	2015-10-15 14:39:33.875560414 +0530
+++ php_cli.c	2015-10-15 15:01:38.422751462 +0530
@@ -634,6 +634,10 @@
 	}
 	file_handle->filename = script_file;
 
+	if (fseek(file_handle->handle.fp, 0L, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
+		return SUCCESS;
+	}
+
 	/* #!php support */
 	c = fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp);
 	if (c == '#' && (c = fgetc(file_handle->handle.fp)) == '!') {


Additional Note:-

PHP Versions: 5.3.3 (cli) and 5.5.20 (cli)
OS: Linux (CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 19)