ID: 20423
User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Open
Bug Type: Filesystem function related
Operating System: Linux 2.4.x
PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-11-14
New Comment:
> ln -s ../my/home/file.txt test_link.txt;
> ls -lia test_link.txt;
> { test_link -> ../my/home/file.txt }
what you say is right , but IT IS NOT POSSIBLE
to create such a link with the last PHP version
in your example , the link created by php will be :
test_link -> /my/home/file.txt
i do not want the ../ to disapear even if it points to
the same location !
what i say is not that the link is broken, but the link
is no longer relative, i can not move it , or i cannot
create it from anywhere !
Previous Comments:
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[2002-11-14 09:21:11] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are wrong.
Ex:
cd /tmp;
echo "TEST DATA" > /my/home/file.txt;
ln -s ../my/home/file.txt test_link.txt;
ls -lia test_link.txt;
{ test_link -> ../my/home/file.txt }
cd /some/dir;
cat /tmp/test_link;
{ TEST DATA }
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[2002-11-14 09:14:01] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to be more precise, the two links points to te same file
only if you are in the same directory than the link
which may be not the case !
Anyway , PHP do not have to interpret the relative path
i give to transform it in an absolute path !
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[2002-11-14 09:03:12] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not agree with you,
It is a bug and a very serious one !
I want to create my symlink with a relative path
in order to be able to move then with the rest of my file
tree , i do not want PHP to silently resolv the path !
previous version of PHP do not behave like this !
my application does not run with this version of PHP because
of this problem, it is not possible with this version
to create relative symlinks !!!!
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[2002-11-14 08:39:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
The symlink ends up pointing to the same file, not a bug.
If have 'foo2.txt -> ../foo.txt' and you do cat /tmp/foo2.txt the
filesystem will resolve it to /foo.txt anyway.
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[2002-11-14 04:27:28] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try this little script :
<script language="php">
chdir("/tmp");
@unlink("/tmp/foo2.txt");
symlink("../foo.txt", "/tmp/foo2.txt");
</script>
it create on /tmp the following link :
foo2.txt -> /foo.txt
while it should have created ( as previous versions does )
foo2.txt -> ../foo.txt
looks like relative path are resolved before making the link
thus it is no longer possible to create relative links !
my configure line is :
./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
--sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share
--includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
--localstatedir=/var --with-config-file-path=/etc
--enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-debug --enable-pic
--disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-db3
--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr
--with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf --with-gdbm --with-gettext
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-openssl --with-png --with-regex=system
--with-xml --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU --enable-debugger --enable-ftp
--enable-magic-quotes --enable-safe-mode --enable-sockets
--enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-discard-path
--enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --enable-yp --enable-wddx
--with-oci8=shared --with-oracle=shared --with-imap=shared
--with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos --with-ldap=shared
--with-mysql=shared,/usr --enable-shmop --enable-versioning
--enable-calendar --enable-dbx --enable-dio --enable-mcal
--enable-mbstring --enable-mbstr-enc-trans --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
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