On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Chris Scott <Chris.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Waynn Lue [mailto:waynnlue@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:06 PM > > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [SPAM] FIFO files on PHP? > > Importance: Low > > > > I'm trying to build a queue out using FIFO files (someone on the MySQL > > list suggested checking them out instead of using the database), but > > I'm running into a problem because of the synchronous fwrite call. > > Here's the code: > > > > $fifoFile = '/tmp/fifo'; > > if (!file_exists($fifoFile)) { > > posix_mkfifo($fifoFile, 0600); > > } > > $fp = fopen($fifoFile, "w"); > > fwrite($fp, "content"); > > fclose($fp); > > > > But this will block until something actually reads the pipe. Is there > > any way to write to the pipe, then go away as opposed to waiting until > > something consumes it? Otherwise, I may just go back to a database > > table. > > > > Thanks, > > Waynn > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Fifo nodes are equivalent to a pipe (|) and have no size on the file > system and therefore the write won't finish until some process reads > from the node. See the man page http://linux.die.net/man/7/fifo . > Wow, my mail client filtered these responses so I only just noticed them--I thought there were no responses. Thanks for letting me know, I ended up using threads to accomplish something similar.
