PHP 4.0 Bug #5997 Updated: rmdir fails to remove specified directory

ID: 5997 Updated by: andi Reported By: dpfender@innova.net Status: Closed Bug Type: *General Issues Assigned To: Comments: The rmdir() problem should be fixed now in the latest CVS. Either grab that or wait for 4.0.3 due soon. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-12 08:08:20] waldschrott@php.net hmmm, well I don´t know what´s actually going on but I´m having various problems, 2 general ones, one related to apachemod (maybe others (ISAPI))... a) unlink() does not work: Warning: Unlink failed (Permission denied) in * b) rmdir() does not work Warning: RmDir failed (No such file or directory) in * ApacheModule: c) exec(rm*) gives an: unable to fork error --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-12 07:36:28] waldschrott@php.net user-feedback: The following code demonstrates the problem on my system <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>dir test pgm</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080"> <?php $dir_name = "testdir"; $mk_ret_code = 0; $rm_ret_code = 0; $mk_ret_code = mkdir($dir_name, 0775); echo ("mkdir('${dir_name}', 0775), ret_code = '${mk_ret_code}'<br><br>n"); $mk_ret_code = rmdir($dir_name); echo ("rmdir('${dir_name}'), ret_code = '${rm_ret_code}'<br><br>n"); // attempt to clean up directory with exec() exec("rmdir ${dir_name}"); ?> </BODY> </HTML> Response: mkdir('testdir', 0775), ret_code = '1' Warning: RmDir failed (No such file or directory) in E:Inetpubwwwrootdir_chkdir_test.php on line 12 rmdir('testdir'), ret_code = '0' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-03 07:34:35] waldschrott@php.net Closed due to missing user feedback. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-08-09 21:47:46] stas@php.net failed to reproduce. Could you provide your full script? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-08-06 20:14:53] dpfender@innova.net At the document root of a web page, create a directory ab using mkdir("ab"). Then create directory ab/cd using mkdir("ab/cd"). Using rmdir("ab/cd") fails to remove directory ab/cd which contains no files. The binary distribution files were used without modification. In php.ini, the following changes were made to php.ini-dist: short_open_tag = Off extension=php_calendar.dll extension=php_ldap.dll extension=php_exif.dll extension=php_ftp.dll extension=php_imap.dll extension=php_mssql70.dll --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online. Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=5997