Bug #70943 [Opn->Csd]: fopen() can't open a file if path is 259 characters long

From: Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:55:32 +0000
Subject: Bug #70943 [Opn->Csd]: fopen() can't open a file if path is 259 characters long
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Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70943&edit=1 ID: 70943 Updated by: ab@php.net Reported by: emanuele at fondani dot it Summary: fopen() can't open a file if path is 259 characters long -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Filesystem function related Operating System: Windows 10 PHP Version: 5.6.15 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: ab Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Fixed in PHP 7.1 Thanks. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-04-08 11:18:23] tomas dot fejfar at gmail dot com Based on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 it seems that prepending the path with '\\?\' should fix it. But it does not seem to write through PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-19 13:47:23] emanuele at fondani dot it I think it's a bug because, as noted by webmaster at tubo-world dot de, for files with a path of 259 characters, there is an inconsistent behaviour among different php file functions. Some support it and some don't. Anyway, path lengths of 259 characters (260, including null terminator) should be supported on Windows, as they are within the allowed maximum path length. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-19 01:39:22] ajf@php.net I'm wondering if this is more a request than a bug. The current behaviour is not wrong per se, it's just a limitation of the specific Windows APIs in use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-19 01:08:17] webmaster at tubo-world dot de I confirm the problem and investigated which filesystem functions work with different lengths of filenames. In theory filesnames up to 259 length should work on Windows as it is below the 260 MAX_PATH length (including terminating null char). I could find out that some functions work with length 259 (touch, rename, file_exists etc), while other functions fail (copy, fopen, realpath, file_put_contents) for the same filename. So for these functions PHP does seem to do something inconsistently in a bad way which causes hard to debug problems. Test script: ------------ <?php $tmpDir = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR; $tmpDirLen = strlen($tmpDir); foreach (array(258, 259, 260) as $fileLen) { $filename = $tmpDir . str_repeat('a', $fileLen - $tmpDirLen); var_dump($filename); echo 'touch: '; var_dump(@touch($filename)); echo 'chmod: '; var_dump(@chmod($filename, 0666)); echo 'file_exists: '; var_dump(file_exists($filename)); echo 'is_file: '; var_dump(is_file($filename)); echo 'stat: '; var_dump(@stat($filename) ? true : false); echo 'realpath: '; var_dump(realpath($filename) ? true : false); echo 'fopen: '; var_dump(($handle = @fopen($filename, 'r')) ? true : false); if ($handle) { fclose($handle); } echo 'unlink: '; var_dump(@unlink($filename)); $tmpFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'tmp'); echo 'copy: '; var_dump(@copy($tmpFile, $filename)); echo 'file_put_contents: '; var_dump(@file_put_contents($filename, 'test data') ? true : false); echo 'rename: '; var_dump($rename = @rename($tmpFile, $filename)); unlink($rename ? $filename : $tmpFile); echo "\n\n"; } Expected result: ---------------- string(258) "..." touch: bool(true) chmod: bool(true) file_exists: bool(true) is_file: bool(true) stat: bool(true) realpath: bool(true) fopen: bool(true) unlink: bool(true) copy: bool(true) file_put_contents: bool(true) rename: bool(true) string(259) "..." touch: bool(true) chmod: bool(true) file_exists: bool(true) is_file: bool(true) stat: bool(true) realpath: bool(true) fopen: bool(true) unlink: bool(true) copy: bool(true) file_put_contents: bool(true) rename: bool(true) string(260) "..." touch: bool(false) chmod: bool(false) file_exists: bool(false) is_file: bool(false) stat: bool(false) realpath: bool(false) fopen: bool(false) unlink: bool(false) copy: bool(false) file_put_contents: bool(false) rename: bool(false) Actual result: -------------- string(258) "..." touch: bool(true) chmod: bool(true) file_exists: bool(true) is_file: bool(true) stat: bool(true) realpath: bool(true) fopen: bool(true) unlink: bool(true) copy: bool(true) file_put_contents: bool(true) rename: bool(true) string(259) "..." touch: bool(true) chmod: bool(true) file_exists: bool(true) is_file: bool(true) stat: bool(true) realpath: bool(false) fopen: bool(false) unlink: bool(true) copy: bool(false) file_put_contents: bool(false) rename: bool(true) string(260) "..." touch: bool(false) chmod: bool(false) file_exists: bool(false) is_file: bool(false) stat: bool(false) realpath: bool(false) fopen: bool(false) unlink: bool(false) copy: bool(false) file_put_contents: bool(false) rename: bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-18 22:43:46] nathanael at gnat dot ca I have the same problem on Windows Server 2008, php 5.6.16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. 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