Re: stat/fstat

At 12:18 11/5/2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:

[Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>] 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) Why not have both numerical and descriptive indices? Backwards compatible, slightly bloatish, but not really a problem.

Yep, that's the best solution IMHO. Zeev