What limitations or constraints does PHP have when it comes to listening for incoming data on a serial port?

PHP does not have built-in support for directly listening for incoming data on a serial port. To overcome this limitation, you can use a third-party PHP extension like `dio` or `runkit` to interact with the serial port and read incoming data. 

// Example using the dio extension to listen for incoming data on a serial port
$device = dio_open('/dev/ttyS0', O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
if (!$device) {
    die("Unable to open serial port");
}

while (true) {
    $data = dio_read($device, 255);
    if ($data !== false) {
        echo "Received data: $data\n";
    }
}
dio_close($device);

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