Bug #54709 [NEW]: is_writable returns false for a directory but php can create files inside it

From: Operating system: Windows XP SP3/IIS 5.1 PHP version: 5.3SVN-2011-05-11 (snap) Package: IIS related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:is_writable returns false for a directory but php can create files inside it Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.is-writable --- Quote: Returns TRUE if the filename exists and is writable. The filename argument may be a directory name allowing you to check if a directory is writable. Well it did not return true in the following test case. The file system is NTFS. Test script: --------------- var_dump(is_writeable("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\simplepiecache")); // false var_dump(is_writeable("\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\simplepiecache")); // false var_dump(is_writeable("/Inetpub/wwwroot/simplepiecache")); // false var_dump(is_writeable("/Inetpub/wwwroot/simplepiecache/")); // false file_put_contents("/Inetpub/wwwroot/mln/simplepiecache/aaa.txt", "bbb"); // DOES create a file aaa.txt containing bbb echo file_get_contents("/Inetpub/wwwroot/mln/simplepiecache/aaa.txt"); // bbb Expected result: ---------------- var_dump(is_writeable("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\simplepiecache")); // should be true var_dump(is_writeable("\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\simplepiecache")); // should be true var_dump(is_writeable("/Inetpub/wwwroot/simplepiecache")); // should be true var_dump(is_writeable("/Inetpub/wwwroot/simplepiecache/")); // should be true -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54709&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54709&r=mysqlcfg