Re: Question regarding include() and symlinks to directories

# Vincent.dupont@ausy.be / 2007-01-08 08:13:11 +0100: > From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com] > > Sent: Sat 1/6/2007 0:17 > > To: Karl Pflästerer > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Question regarding include() and symlinks to directories > > > > On Thu, January 4, 2007 2:47 pm, Karl Pflästerer wrote: > > > In my opinion include() should respect symlinks to directories and not > > > dereference them before finding the file to include. Or am I wrong > > > here? > > > The PHP version is 5.1.6 (will soon be updated). > > > > Anything else is more like playing an Adventure Game than Programming. > > > > I can see arguments both ways for when to work out the symlink, so > > you'd have to take this up with Internals to get a change made... > > if I can still contribute to this topic, I suggest you never use simlinks. > We experienced very bad maintenance problems at a customer : when > copying new files through FTP, the simlinks were often erased or > overwriten. And this occured on every upgrade of the scripts. Shouldn't that have been: "never use broken FTP clients"? NB, I hope I got the quoting right, but if someone got misattributed, please blame the original quoting. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991