I ran into that a long time ago, and I wondered why.
I thought about changing it, but I assumed that 
it would break backwards compatibility.

What about 4.1 though?

-Jason

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stat/fstat


> I just figured this only applies to stat() and not fstat().  Which also 
> means they're totally incompatible with each other, although the 
> documentation suggests they're essentially the same, other than the fact 
> that one expects a file handle and the other expects a file name...  What 
> gives?
> 
> 
> At 01:07 11/5/2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >Hey,
> >
> >I just got around to writing a PHP script that uses stat(), and was quite 
> >surprised to find that instead of using string indices, it uses 
> >hardcoded/obscure numeric indices, e.g.:
> >
> >Array
> >(
> >     [0] => 2050
> >     [1] => 1114462
> >     [2] => 16877
> >     [3] => 2
> >     [4] => 503
> >     [5] => 513
> >     [6] => 11065
> >     [7] => 1024
> >     [8] => 989532201
> >     [9] => 989532201
> >     [10] => 989532201
> >     [11] => 4096
> >     [12] => 2
> >)
> >
> >Is there any reason for this?  If not, I'd like to add meaningful names as 
> >well (I guess it's way too late to remove the numeric indices)
> >
> >Zeev
> >
> >
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