#50371 [NEW]: realpath() returns path to nonexistent file/folder

From: max at kosyakov dot net Operating system: FreeBSD PHP version: 5.2.11 PHP Bug Type: Filesystem function related Bug description: realpath() returns path to nonexistent file/folder Description: ------------ realpath() returns path for the folder that does not exists. First appeared on php-5.2.8 on FreeBSD 6.1. I have upgraded to php-5.2.1, however the bug persisted %php -r '$test = "asdfasdf"; var_dump(realpath($test)); var_dump(file_exists(realpath($test)));' string(27) "/usr/home/kosyakov/asdfasdf" bool(false) %php -v PHP 5.2.11 (cli) (built: Dec 3 2009 17:26:14) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.32, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by ionCube Ltd. %uname -imprsv FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 i386 GENERIC %more /usr/soft/php-5.2.11/config.nice #! /bin/sh # # Created by configure './configure' \ '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs' \ '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' \ '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf' \ '--with-gd' \ '--with-png-dir=/usr/local' \ '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' \ '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local' \ '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' \ '--with-iconv=/usr/local' \ '--enable-ftp' \ '--with-curl=/usr/local' \ '--with-openssl' \ '--enable-soap' \ '--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' \ '--with-mime-magic' \ '--enable-mbstring' \ '--without-sqlite' \ '--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr/local' \ '--enable-bcmath' \ "$@" Bugs #43060 and #32627 look like the same bug but it is still reproducible. Reproduce code: --------------- --- From manual page: function.realpath#Description --- $test = "asdfasdf"; var_dump(realpath($test)); var_dump(file_exists(realpath($test)));' Expected result: ---------------- bool(false) bool(false) Actual result: -------------- string(27) "/usr/home/kosyakov/asdfasdf" bool(false) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50371&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50371&r=mysqlcfg