Description:
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This forked socket server works well until I stress test it with a high volume of connections over an extended period (1 hour or more, 20,000-50,000 connections), at which point it segfaults. I had been using socket_select() prior to this implementation, but was seeing segfaults there as well (more frequently), and noticed that the socket_select() segfaults were a known issue as per TODO_SEGFAULTS. I switched over to this approach, which in some ways mimics the behavior of socket_select(), and thought I had the segfaults licked until I started stress testing the daemon. 
There is quite a bit of code to this project, as it it built upon my homegrown PHP component suite (http://www.phpfuse.net), but I've tried to include the more relevant parts. fusepaneld.php is the script that gets executed from the CLI. It instantiates FuseWebTaskDaemon and calls start_daemon(), which is where most of the actual work is done. 


Reproduce code:
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(see description for explanation of these two files)

http://jim.centerfuse.net/php_segfaults/fusepaneld.phps
http://jim.centerfuse.net/php_segfaults/FuseWebTaskDaemon.class.phps


Expected result:
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This code is a socket server that uses socket_accept() (with a nonblocking socket) to accept incoming connections from a web script. The web script sends the daemon a message in the form of a serialized object. The message contains authentication information, a function name, and function parameters. The elevated-privilege listening daemon then forks a child, executes the function as requested and returns the result to the front end web application. Everything works fine until the daemon has handled several thousand connections, when it segfaults and dies. 

Actual result:
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php4.3.11 in malloc(): warning: recursive call

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x811090b in zend_llist_add_element (l=0x8171448, element=0x7fbfbb74) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_llist.c:40
40              tmp->prev = l->tail;
(gdb) bt

#0  0x811090b in zend_llist_add_element (l=0x8171448, element=0x7fbfbb74) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_llist.c:40
#1  0x80745a6 in pcntl_signal_handler (signo=20) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/ext/pcntl/pcntl.c:509
#2  0x7fbfffac in ?? ()
#3  0x283ddb77 in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#4  0x283dddcd in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#5  0x283de4e5 in malloc () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#6  0x8109c26 in _emalloc (size=129) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_alloc.c:164
#7  0x8109e4b in _erealloc (ptr=0x0, size=129, allow_failure=0) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_alloc.c:301
#8  0x80f4c9c in xbuf_resize (xbuf=0x7fbfbefc, add=0) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/main/spprintf.c:143
#9  0x80f4cec in xbuf_init (xbuf=0x7fbfbefc, max_len=1024) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/main/spprintf.c:160
#10 0x80f57e2 in vspprintf (pbuf=0x7fbfbf4c, max_len=1024, format=0x8162080 "Use of undefined constant %s - assumed '%s'", 
    ap=0x7fbfbfd0 "L\005\036\bL\005\036\bܿ?\177\214\001_\bL?'\b\003\001\003")
    at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/main/spprintf.c:630
#11 0x80f1af9 in php_error_cb (type=8, 
    error_filename=0x822b38c "/usr/local/share/FUSE/support/fusewebtask/FuseWebTaskDaemon.class.php", error_lineno=154, 
    format=0x8162080 "Use of undefined constant %s - assumed '%s'", 
    args=0x7fbfbfd0 "L\005\036\bL\005\036\bܿ?\177\214\001_\bL?'\b\003\001\003") at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/main/main.c:599
#12 0x8116def in zend_error (type=8, format=0x8162080 "Use of undefined constant %s - assumed '%s'")
    at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend.c:789
#13 0x812ae19 in execute (op_array=0x81ce98c) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_execute.c:2031
#14 0x8128010 in execute (op_array=0x85e3400) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_execute.c:1698
#15 0x8128010 in execute (op_array=0x81cc40c) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_execute.c:1698
#16 0x8117124 in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend.c:926
#17 0x80f3773 in php_execute_script (primary_file=0x7fbffafc) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/main/main.c:1745
#18 0x812e8d9 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fbffb64) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:828

(gdb) frame 13
#13 0x812ae19 in execute (op_array=0x81ce98c) at /usr/src/php-4.3.11/php-4.3.11/Zend/zend_execute.c:2031
2031                                            zend_error(E_NOTICE, "Use of undefined constant %s - assumed '%s'",

(gdb) print (char *)(executor_globals.function_state_ptr->function)->common.function_name
$2 = 0x82707cc "start_daemon"
(gdb) print (char *)executor_globals.active_op_array->function_name
$3 = 0x82707cc "start_daemon"
(gdb) print (char *)executor_globals.active_op_array->filename
$4 = 0x822b38c "/usr/local/share/FUSE/support/fusewebtask/FuseWebTaskDaemon.class.php"