Bug #15089 Updated: stat() produces warning instead of error-code.

ID: 15089 User updated by: herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at Reported By: herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at Status: Open Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: linux PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: I used stat() to check the existence of files. If the file I check does not exist, stat() would return FALSE instead of a struct stbuf. This behaviour is also the *documented* behaviour and is how php-4.0 behaves. Just 15 mins. ago I installed php-4.1.1. Now, stat() on a non-existent file clutters my html-pages with "Warning: file does not exist". *cough* Yes, I know that files might not exist, that´s exactly what I use stat() for, to check the existance of files. Yes, there is "file_exists()", but why do you output warnings from stat() when returning FALSE is sufficient? This is one more step away from how one would code programms in C. Why implement C-like functions (stat(), fstat(), lstat()) when you have to use other non-obvious functions (file_exists()) to do what you could do with the C-like functions. Stay close to the origins. Now I have to use *two* functions - first I have to use file_exists(), then I have to use stat(). I am pretty sure that php will execute both calls using the same system-call, that is, stat(2). That´s suboptimal and an overhead and a performance penalty (yes I have *many* files). I just don´t see why the php-engine has to perform the same system-call twice with exactly the same paramters, when one system-call is enough. I really think this is not good. And since I am in doubt you will ever change that, I am considerung switching to mod_perl. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-17 16:29:38] herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at I used stat() to check the existence of files. If the file I check does not exist, stat() would return FALSE instead of a struct stbuf. This behaviour is also the *documented* behaviour and is how php-4.0 behaves. Just 15 mins. ago I installed php-4.1.1. Now, stat() on a non-existent file clutters my html-pages with "Warning: file does not exist". *cough* Yes, I know that files might not exist, that´s exactly what I use stat() for, to check the existance of files. Yes, there is "file_exists()", but why do you output warnings from stat() when returning FALSE is sufficient? This is one more step away from how one would code programms in C. Why implement C-like functions (stat(), fstat(), lstat()) when you have to use other non-obvious functions (file_exists()) to do what you could do with the C-like functions. Stay close to the origins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15089&edit=1