PHP function stream_set_blocking()

Availability in versions: PHP 4.3.0

Set blocking/non-blocking mode on a stream

Parameters

Parameter Data type Default value Note
$stream resource not The stream.
$mode int not If mode is 0, the given stream will be switched to non-blocking mode, and if 1, it will be switched to blocking mode. This affects calls like fgets and fread that read from the stream. In non-blocking mode an fgets call will always return right away while in blocking mode it will wait for data to become available on the stream.

Return values

bool

Returns true on success, otherwise false on failure.

Other resources

Official stream-set-blocking documentation

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