Re: is_link() behavior

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:05:00AM -0500, J. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:56:47AM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > I commited another fix. > > is_link() should work correctly now. If things have improved and you have > > problems with lstat() and filetype() (which I think there's a good chance > > that they are screwed up) let me know. > > Thanks, > > Andi > > --new output > :(01:02am ~/php): ./fs-test.php > is_link passed > readlink passed: /bin/false > filetype passed: link > lstat passed: > > Array > ( > [0] => 770 > [1] => 749 > [2] => 41471 > [3] => 1 > [4] => 0 > [5] => 0 > [6] => 0 > [7] => 10 > [8] => 988178527 > [9] => 988178527 > [10] => 988178527 > [11] => 4096 > [12] => 1 > ) > is_link passed > readlink passed: /this/file/does/not/exist > > Warning: stat failed for /tmp/test-link-func (errno=2 - No such file or > directory) in ./fs-test.php on line 11 > filetype failed > > Warning: stat failed for /tmp/test-link-func (errno=2 - No such file or > directory) in ./fs-test.php on line 14 > lstat failed > --end > Ok.. is_link() and readlink() (I realize this is in a separate section, but I still use it as opposed to lstat() to get the link's target) are the only two functions that work on broken symlinks. filetype(), lstat(), and file_exists() all fail (the latter probably should, eh?). I assume all the file<someinfo>() functions will fail also, since they are based on lstat() or stat().