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IO copy API for stream copying#20399

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@bukka bukka commented Nov 5, 2025

This introduces new API for fd copying and modifies php_stream_copy_to_stream_ex to use it. The implementation is separated for various platforms and the end result have couple of implications:

  • sendfile is used for copying file to generic fd (e.g. sockets) on linux
  • splice is used for copying between generic fds (e.g. sockets) on linux
  • copy_file_range should get used on alpine linux with directly using syscall (as musl does not seem to implement it)
  • copy_file_range is used in the loop so it is used multiple times for files bigger than 2GB on linux
  • file mmap for copying is removed as it allowed crashing PHP when another process modified mapped file - this was used as a fallback for file copying. Sendfile on Linux should replace it and other platform might see a slight slow down - their sendfile behaves differently but could be at least partially introduced in the future.
  • TransmitFile is used on Windows for copying file to generic fd (socket)
  • file to file copying was also optimized on Windows with use of ReadFile and WriteFile.

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