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Fwrite to stdout in childprocess not shown

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Bug Category: Program Execution SAPI: cli Status: Needs Triage
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Description

Description

it won't write text there so you don't know there is a prompt. (fwrite(STDOUT, $text) also i get a timeout (execute timeout) in my own framework which holds some more code. and if i write something to stdin it wont get accepted / continue executing script.

test1.php

<?php 
$command = escapeshellcmd(PHP_BINARY) . ' ' . escapeshellarg(__DIR__ . '/test2.php');
var_dump(exec($command, $output)); 
var_dump($output);

test2.php

<?php
function my_readline($text='') { 
fwrite(STDOUT, $text); 
return trim(fgets(STDIN)); 
} 
$a = my_readline('test: ');
echo $a;

the fwrite to STDOUT isn't executed if i run test1.php

PHP Version

8.2

Working in php 7.4

Operating System

Debian 11.6

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Research direction

Reproduce the behavior with the issue's test1.php and test2.php scripts under PHP 8.2 on Debian 11.6, comparing the child process's stdout prompt and stdin handling with PHP 7.4. Then trace the exec and child-process I/O behavior to identify why fwrite(STDOUT, $text) is not visible or why input does not continue; done means the prompt is shown and input is accepted without a timeout.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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