#10700 [Com]: unlink() doesn't like win/unc names

ID: 10700 Comment by: andrew at bramp dot freeserve dot co dot uk Reported By: djanix at hotmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: win32 PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (2001-05-07) New Comment: It appears this bug has been fixed. Its working fine on 4.3.4 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 15:41:53] djanix at hotmail dot com yeah but a call to standard unlink() will work... unlink( "//rhodes/d$/test.txt" ); from the same or another machine works just fine. i suppose u'r saying that the '//' will signal a wrapper to call the proper unlink code, that's different, but it still doesn't seem like a feature request, when a previously added feature was 'unc pathname support'... but oh well, i can fix with a wrapper around php unlink() that can use exec() to get the job done, but that's obviously not a great solution... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 14:53:34] sander@php.net It's not a local, regular file. You can compare it to something like http://host/file.txt To delete a file like that, you need some network-stuff to handle the connection. That is not (yet) implemented in PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 14:46:35] djanix at hotmail dot com how is it not a real filename ?! [\\becker\c$\winnt\system32\dns]dir Directory of \\becker\c$\winnt\system32\dns\* 10/19/2001 17:57 <DIR> . 10/19/2001 17:57 <DIR> .. 10/19/2001 17:57 <DIR> backup 9/18/2001 10:32 <DIR> generated 8/12/2001 15:58 72,681 boot 5/07/2001 1:43 61,681 BOOT.bak 6/01/2001 11:48 380 BOOT.template 8/12/2001 15:59 1,391 cache.dns 10/19/2001 17:57 0 dns.log ... just in case there was some confusion... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 14:31:29] sander@php.net The problem is that //becker/c$/winnt/system32/dns/BOOT is not a real filename. Changing to feature request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-05-07 07:12:13] djanix at hotmail dot com unlink( '//becker/c$/winnt/system32/dns/BOOT' ); or any other file with unc names gets Warning: Unlink failed (Invalid argument) THANKS FOR UNC SUPPORT in 4.0.6 !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10700&edit=1