Bug #77523 [NEW]: glob pattern is limited to 260 characters

From: nospam at unclassified dot de Operating system: Windows 10.1709 PHP version: 7.1.26 Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions Bug Type: Bug Bug description:glob pattern is limited to 260 characters Description: ------------ This is what I do: glob("pages/[Cc][Oo][Nn][Tt][Aa][Cc][Tt]/[Oo][Dd][Ll][Rr]0[Vv][Ss]8[Cc][Gg][Rr][Jj][Bb][Ii][Ll][Aa][Ww][Gg][Pp][Nn][Bb][Tt][Rr]4[Uu][Dd]3[Bb][Nn][Kk][Aa][Ee]/[Dd][Ee][Mm][Oo]/[Ii][Mm][Gg]/[Vv][Ss]2018[Jj][Aa][Vv][Aa][Ss][Cc][Rr][Ii][Pp][Tt][Ww][Aa][Rr][Nn][Ii][Nn][Gg][Ss].[Pp][Nn][Gg]") This is what I get: Warning: glob(): Pattern exceeds the maximum allowed length of 260 characters The string passed to glob() is 279 characters long. And it may even be longer. I has to be this complicated to determine the correct casing of a file name on disk. This restriction is neither documented nor understandable. The pattern length should not matter at all. And even if you think that file paths of actual files in the filesystem are limited to 260 characters on Windows, you may need to update your knowledge from at least 20 years ago. This restriction only exists for deprecated legacy software, which I hope PHP is not. Test script: --------------- See above. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77523&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77523&r=mysqlcfg