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File descriptors / some procfs entries not openable by php

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Description

Description

The following code:

<?php
file_put_contents("/proc/1/fd/1", "hi");

Resulted in this output:

file_put_contents(/proc/1/fd/1): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

But I expected this output instead:

2

This is highly impactful for containerized PHP environments. php-fpm has unique workarounds that they've utilized, and in the past the fd stream wrapper was implemented to support managing the current process's file descriptors, but if you are in a different SAPI and/or utilize forking or execing to other PHP scripts, stdout in a docker container quickly turns into a black hole in terms of container logging, where it's expected that all logs are sent to the PID 1 stdout/err. See: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53465 where they hypothesize this is due to PHP incorrectly attempts to dereference the pseudo-symlink before opening it. The hypothesis makes sense to me. It'd be nice to see this fixed for all file descriptors.

PHP Version

7.4

Operating System

Centos 7.9

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the PHP example against /proc/1/fd/1 and read the linked bug about pseudo-symlink dereferencing, then trace the file-opening path for procfs descriptors. Done means descriptors such as /proc/1/fd/1 can be opened and produce the expected result across SAPIs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c, php
Domain
operating-systems
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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