From: daniele dot segato at gmail dot com Operating system: Unix/Linux PHP version: 5.4.4RC2 Package: Directory function related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:__FILE__ resolves symlinks?
Description: ------------ As outlined in bug 38790 ( https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38790 ) php do not keep the "context" information about the path. The author of that comment being closed as "not a bug" was not very polite but he was right about the report. suppose a request to: http://<somehost>/some/path/file.php is performed the web server know that is mapping to (for example) to /var/www/some/path/file.php and should give that to php engine. if, accidentally, "path" is a symbolic link then php should consider context. In unix if you are in /var/www/some/path and you do cd .. you are sent back to /var/www/some even if "path" is a symbolic link that happen because the shell consider the context. if php does not do that you can't use symlink reliably. Consider that a feature request if you don't like "bug" :) Even having an additional define like: __PSEUDO_DIR_PATH__ that doesn't solve symlink may be enough to give the feature to an user but I think both __DIR__ and __FILE__ should NOT resolve symlinks you can always use realpath() if you need to, but I understand that this can introduce all sort of backward compatibility issue Please re-consider your "not-a-bug" decision. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62322&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62322&r=mysqlcfg
