Bug #17590 Updated: readdir fails on directory called "0"

ID: 17590 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: mw@antitachyon.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Directory function related Operating System: SoL 13.37 (Linux) PHP Version: 4.2.0 New Comment: Sorry, but the bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php Thank you for your interest in PHP. You have probably somethign like: while ($a = readdir($dir)) { in your code, this will not work as $a can be 0 sometimes (the name of the directory) while (($a = readdir) !== FALSE) { // note the !== Derick Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-04 05:35:30] mfischer@php.net Sorry, but the bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php Thank you for your interest in PHP. See php.net/opendir, you have to use the !== operator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-04 05:31:20] mw@antitachyon.com If you have a directory which contains directories like "0" "1" "test" "mytestdir" and so on the function "readdir" returns only "." and ".." . If you remove the directory called "0" everything is fine again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17590&edit=1