PHP: proc_open persistent file pointers

Is there a way to make the file streams returned by proc_open() persistent between page loads so I can make a PHP style interface to a terminal program?

Looking over the php functions it seems possible to make persistent pointers with stream_socket_client(<URL>, STREAM_CLIENT_PERSISTENT). But I don't think its possible to make a pointer to a terminal using a URL schema.

The other thing I can think of is to make a small C program to pipe output from stdin to a network socket and have PHP communicate with that.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/

I did some kind of testing, but my PHP didn't have PTY support compiled in so I gave up. I do think this would allow it to work, however.

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I tried using dtach with proc_open() and passthru(). I can't use pty because I'm on Debian with php4 and you need php5 to use pty. Using pipes I get dtach errors like:

dtach: tcgetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device

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Yeah, it requires a "real" terminal. I think a PTY would do it, but I am not entirely sure... and that reminds me! I just remembered the great idea I had last night but didn't write down, thanks!

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