#45585 [Com]: fread() return value for EOF inconsistent between PHP 5 and 6

ID: 45585 Comment by: mike at mikegerwitz dot com Reported By: jani@php.net Status: Open Bug Type: Filesystem function related Operating System: * PHP Version: 6CVS-2008-07-21 (CVS) New Comment: Confirmed in php6.0-200810110430. Cannot reliably loop through data using feof() when recognizing FALSE as an error. while ( !( feof( $handle ) ) ) { if ( ( $text = fread( $handle, 1024 ) ) === FALSE ) { // When attempting to read past the EOF, PHP 6 returns FALSE rather than an empty string die( 'Error!' ); } $data .= $text; } In PHP < 6, the above code will not display the error. In PHP 6, it does a good job of breaking a lot of code. Is this new functionality intended or are there plans to fix it? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-07-21 16:34:04] jani@php.net In 5.2/5.3 it returns empty string, in PHP 6 FALSE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-07-21 16:33:34] jani@php.net Description: ------------ # echo "1" > /tmp/test.txt # php_5_2/sapi/cli/php -n -r '$fp=fopen("/tmp/test.txt", "r"); while(1) {$a=fread($fp, 8192); if (!$a) {var_dump($a); exit;}}' string(0) "" # php_5_3/sapi/cli/php -n -r '$fp=fopen("/tmp/test.txt", "r"); while(1) {$a=fread($fp, 8192); if (!$a) {var_dump($a); exit;}}' string(0) "" # php_6/sapi/cli/php -n -r '$fp=fopen("/tmp/test.txt", "r"); while(1) {$a=fread($fp, 8192); if (!$a) {var_dump($a); exit;}}' bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45585&edit=1