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ftok

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

ftokConvertir un nombre de ruta y un identificador de proyecto a una clave IPC de System V

Descripción

int ftok ( string $pathname , string $proj )

La función conviete el nombre de ruta dado por pathname de un archivo existente accesible y un identificador de proyecto a un valor de tipo integer para usarlo, por ejemplo, con shmop_open() y otras claves IPC de System V.

Parámetros

pathname

Ruta a un archivo accedible.

proj

Identificador de proyecto. Debe ser una cadena de un carácter.

Valores devueltos

Si se tuvo éxito, el valor devuelto será el valor de la clave creada, de otro modo se devolverá -1.

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Peter MOLNAR 18-May-2007 12:38
mbowie at buzmo dot com wrote:
"The result of this is that if you're using "1" as the id on the PHP side, you'll need to use 49 elsewhere."

You can always use chr() as an alternative.
marco at greenlightsolutions dot nl 17-Apr-2007 03:08
As ftok uses only the last 16 bits of the inode of the file, you can get collisions on large filesystems. Unfortunately, on large filesystems you can get collisions rather quickly: if you have a collection of 350-400 files, odds are that two of them have inodes with the same last 16 bits. So I've taken to using fileinode instead of ftok with functions like shmop_open.
mbowie at buzmo dot com 20-Oct-2004 09:41
If you're planning to use ftok() to generate an IPC identifier to share with other applications, note that PHP uses the ASCII value of the proj parameter to generate the key, not the proj (aka id) parameter itself.

The result of this is that if you're using "1" as the id on the PHP side, you'll need to use 49 elsewhere.

This may not be the case under all OS's, but certainly is for FreeBSD which requires the id parameter passed to ftok to be an int.

Also of note, ipcs and ipcrm are extremely useful for debugging SysV queues etc.

References:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftok
http://www.asciitable.com
abk at avatartechnology dot com 17-Jun-2004 08:17
Thanks to  daniele_dll@yahoo.it who got this in turn from linux glibc 2.3.2: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shmop-open.php -- I'm putting this here because it might be helpful to others.

function ftok($pathname, $proj_id) {
   $st = @stat($pathname);
   if (!$st) {
       return -1;
   }
 
   $key = sprintf("%u", (($st['ino'] & 0xffff) | (($st['dev'] & 0xff) << 16) | (($proj_id & 0xff) << 24)));
   return $key;
}
david dot rech at virusmedia dot de 27-May-2004 02:50
Missing ftok() on Windows? Here's my little workaround:

<?php
if( !function_exists('ftok') )
{
    function
ftok($filename = "", $proj = "")
    {
        if( empty(
$filename) || !file_exists($filename) )
        {
            return -
1;
        }
        else
        {
           
$filename = $filename . (string) $proj;
            for(
$key = array(); sizeof($key) < strlen($filename); $key[] = ord(substr($filename, sizeof($key), 1)));
            return
dechex(array_sum($key));
        }
    }
}
?>

NOTE: There *may* be duplicate keys, even if probability is low.

The key's were NOT computed like the original UNIX ftok() because i.e. fileinode() is also missing on windows. Normally ftok() computes a key based on the file inode and the system minor id of the harddrive the file resides.

Behaviour is like PHPs ftok(), -1 is returned if file is missing or $filename is empty, computed int as hex on success.

--
Regards,
David Rech
kimaz at swecom dot org 03-May-2004 01:35
You dont have to use ftok() for specifying an System V IPC identifier, though its a good thing to do so.

Passing a regular int to, e.g. msg_get_queue, will have the same effect aslong as you use that value when reading/writing.

I use it for some minor tasks generating small queue's.
andreyKEINSPAM at php dot net 24-Apr-2004 04:43
This function is not part neither of ext/sysvsem nor ext/sysvshm but comes with the core functions of PHP (from ext/standard).

 
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