Bug #52383 [Opn->Bgs]: readdir(false) behavior change

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52383&edit=1 ID: 52383 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: vc at artstyle dot net Summary: readdir(false) behavior change -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Directory function related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.2 New Comment: This is to do with the new parameter parsing API that's used in PHP 5.3, and is documented in the first bullet point of the migration guide's list of incompatible changes [0] -- giving any built-in function an invalid parameter (and readdir() certainly doesn't expect a boolean) results in NULL being returned. [0] http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-20 21:15:24] vc at artstyle dot net Description: ------------ Documentation at http://php.net/readdir explains that > This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function. That was true for PHP 5.2.x and not so for 5.3.x: # php -r 'var_dump(phpversion(), @readdir(false), @readdir(false)===false);' string(8) "5.2.11-2" bool(false) bool(true) # php -r 'var_dump(phpversion(), @readdir(false), @readdir(false)===false);' string(7) "5.3.2-1" NULL bool(false) This can make loop while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {...} infinite if $handle was not checked beforehand. Please consider to be more backward-compatible if this not cost much. Thanks! Test script: --------------- php -r 'var_dump(@readdir(false), @readdir(false)===false);' Expected result: ---------------- bool(false) bool(true) Actual result: -------------- NULL bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52383&edit=1