Hi!
Well, it changes the signature of that function, so while we don't break backward binary compatibility, we break forward compatibility within the 5.3 branch. As in, if I change my extension to use this new NoNull string flag, it will no longer work on<5.3.3 whereas if I do the if(strlen(filename) != filename_len) check, this will still work in all 5.3 releases.
So if you have such extension, and you need to have it compatible with previous versions (e.g. PECL one), use the check. That doesn't prevent us from having the flag in the core code and thus keeping it cleaner.
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