Php/docs/function.dio-read

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• Direct IO Functions
• Reads bytes from a file descriptor

dio_read

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5 < 5.1.0)

dio_read — Reads bytes from a file descriptor

Description

dio_read ( resource $fd [, int $len = 1024 ] ) : string

The function dio_read() reads and returns len bytes from file with descriptor fd.

Parameters

fd

The file descriptor returned by dio_open().

len

The number of bytes to read. If not specified, dio_read() reads 1K sized block.

Return Values

The bytes read from fd.

See Also

• dio_write() - Writes data to fd with optional truncation at length