Hi,

I currently work on a daemon implemented in PHP and as such, I want to keep
all configurations in place while the php binary can be used by other cli
scripts with the default /etc/php.ini file. I could recompile PHP and add a
new folder to the folder which is scanned for php.ini files. A better idea
would be a configuration with the shebang like this:

#!/usr/local/php/bin/php -c /var/www/php.ini

Unfortunately, this doesn't work on Linux due to a <del>bug</del>
<ins>feature</ins> which keeps the shebang parameters as one string on
argv[1]. There is already a ticket for this problem:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53034

My specific problem could be tackled in two ways:
- Scan "." every time cli is called for a php.ini file or
- Try to make argv interpretation more intelligent and parse/merge shebang
parameters.

The second solution, would also open the possebility to define constants or
make use of all other cli parameters. Well, there's also a quick hack. We
could change php_getopt() in order to make this a valid argument:

php -c=/var/www/php.ini

Anyway, I would provide a patch for the shebang parsing, but I wanted to
put out my feelers what you think about this idea in general. I know, it's
an OS problem, but we could work around this problem very quickly and
improve the usability of cli scripts alot.

Robert

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