From: php dot net at yereth dot nl Operating system: SUSE 9.2 PHP version: 4.4.4 PHP Bug Type: Filesystem function related Bug description: __FILE__ resolves symlinks?
Description: ------------ __FILE__ resolves symlinks in 4.x. This is very undesirable. If this was intentionally, perhaps another magic constant can be introduced that does not resolve the symlink. Besides that, I can always use realpath(__FILE__), which is another reason why __FILE__ shouldn't resolve; resolving is easy, the other way around is impossible without further contextual information. Rephrasing the problem: if __FILE__ doesn't give me the name of the symlinked file, there is nothing that does, as far as I know. This restricts me terribly in my possibilities and forces developers to redundancy, as symlinks do not give the desired result, obviously. Hopefully you'll see that an addition to the magic constants or a change in function of __FILE__ enhances the possibilities of developers. Thanks in advance! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38790&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38790&r=mysqlcfg
