On 11/14/2006 08:26 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Sounds like something which indeed isn't worth breaking. Was this
intentional?
Sara says it was intentional, that's why I decided to write to the list.
I don't think such intentional breaks should take place in any PHP version.
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From: Antony Dovgal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:39 PM
To: php-dev
Subject: [PHP-DEV] fgets()/fgetss() BC break in HEAD
Hello all.
I'd like to continue recent IRC discussion here, to draw more
attention to this issue.
At the moment functions fgets() and fgetss() are broken in
HEAD, as they return <maxlen> characters instead of <maxlen -
1>, as they do in 5.2 (and I'm pretty sure this is the way
they used to work since their very first appearance in PHP).
So, anybody relying on fgets($fp, 10) to return 9 characters
would get 10 characters instead.
Yes, this behaviour is not very intuitive for those who are
not familiar with fgets() in C, but it's well documented and
pretty much expected.
I believe this is an unreasonable BC break and I strongly
believe it should be fixed.
There are 0 reasons to do it (without any discussion) and it
can only result in more users' confusion, even if the
original purpose was the contrary.
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