stream_select()

stream_select - Runs the equivalent of the select() system call on the given arrays of streams with a timeout specified by tv_sec and tv_usec

Syntax

int stream_select ()

Arguments

-

Description

The stream_select() function accepts arrays of streams and waits for them to change status. Its operation is equivalent to that of the socket_select() function except in that it acts on streams.

Version

PHP 4.3.0, 5

Return value

On success stream_select() returns the number of stream resources contained in the modified arrays, which may be zero if the timeout expires before anything interesting happens. On error FALSE is returned and a warning raised (this can happen if the system call is interrupted by an incoming signal).