I'm forwarding this to php-dev@ (so people doing filtering
don't miss it ;) and let's see what opinion others have about
this.
- Markus
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ID: 12465
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Open
Bug Type: POSIX related
Operating System: Linux
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:
I agree with Herbert here.
It's pretty worthless for the function to generate this verbose error
messages during runtime. It's mimic is excatly what the C version does
(function-wise). Does the C version do any output itself if it
encounters an error (e.g. posix_getpwuid) ? No. Why? Because a NULL
return value is a valid return value. It's not a php_error() nor a
E_WARNING.
Instead, the extension should be re-written to a) return false (the
PHP-way), b) store the errno in a thread-global contect variable and c)
provide a function to cleanly retrieve the exacty error message
(currently, you would habe to catch $php_errmsg (or whatever it was)
and parse it out.
Short: re-opening ;)
Previous Comments:
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[2002-02-28 14:48:28] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Itīs still nonsense to write an error-message! stat() *IS STILL USED*
for checking the existence of files. Why do I have to *suppress*
error-messages?! PHP should not *generate* them in the first! *If* you
choose to implement stat() and name it after the C-function, then
stat() should behave as closely as possible like its C-equivalent.
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[2002-02-04 02:46:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It returns false. You need to get rid of error messages with @...
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[2001-07-30 09:24:17] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi,
I tried to use some of the posix_* functions to work with
user-accounts on the system, like "posix_getpwnam()" and
"posix_getpwuid()".
I expected to get an error-code back (like Failed or FALSE)
for pwnames or pwuids which do not exist in /etc/passwd.
Instead, PHP will write a warning message in my html-output:
: Warning: posix_getpwuid(4711) failed with 'Success' in
: /data/home/webmaster/admin/admin.php
: on line 197
and, what I think is strange, will "fail with īSuccessī".
Could you please modify the posix_getpw* functions in a
way that they 1) do not write strange warning-messages
and 2) return a NULL-Value or FALSE, where the unix getpw*(3) will
return NULL (just like documented in the
man-page)
thanks in advance,
herbert rosmanith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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