Re: stat/fstat

I ran into that a long time ago, and I wondered why. I thought about changing it, but I assumed that it would break backwards compatibility. What about 4.1 though? -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> To: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stat/fstat > I just figured this only applies to stat() and not fstat(). Which also > means they're totally incompatible with each other, although the > documentation suggests they're essentially the same, other than the fact > that one expects a file handle and the other expects a file name... What > gives? > > > At 01:07 11/5/2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >Hey, > > > >I just got around to writing a PHP script that uses stat(), and was quite > >surprised to find that instead of using string indices, it uses > >hardcoded/obscure numeric indices, e.g.: > > > >Array > >( > > [0] => 2050 > > [1] => 1114462 > > [2] => 16877 > > [3] => 2 > > [4] => 503 > > [5] => 513 > > [6] => 11065 > > [7] => 1024 > > [8] => 989532201 > > [9] => 989532201 > > [10] => 989532201 > > [11] => 4096 > > [12] => 2 > >) > > > >Is there any reason for this? If not, I'd like to add meaningful names as > >well (I guess it's way too late to remove the numeric indices) > > > >Zeev > > > > > >-- > >Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > >CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. > >http://www.zend.com/ > > > > > >-- > >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. > http://www.zend.com/ > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >