Bug #51766 [NEW]: SplFileInfo::isLink() Fails for Symlinks on windows

From: Operating system: All Windows OS PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: SPL related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:SplFileInfo::isLink() Fails for Symlinks on windows Description: ------------ SplFileInfo::isLink() Which returns False for Symbolic links on all windows OS. we have a File Symbolic link created for a file and tried to test whether the referenced file by SplFileInfo is symbolic link or not. In the above script we have a symlink(filesymlink)created for a file 'testfile' and tried to check with the file_exists function for symlink(filesymlink) which returns true and it returns false for the SplFileInfo::isLink(). Test script: --------------- <?php $symlinkname = "/path/to/filesymlink"; $fileinfo = new SplFileInfo($symlinkname); var_dump(file_exists($symlinkname)); var_dump($fileinfo->isLink()); ?> Expected result: ---------------- bool(true) bool(true) Actual result: -------------- bool(true) bool(false) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51766&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51766&r=mysqlcfg