Re: fopen('.', 'r') succeedes !?

Umberto, When I try this in OS X 10.10 php 5.5.14 (I've added newlines to output) $ php -a ... php > $f= fopen('.', 'r'); php > print_r( $f ); Resource id #2 php > $s = fread( $f, 10 ); php > print_r(strlen($s)); 0 php > if ($s !== FALSE) print('NOT FALSE'); NOT FALSE php > if ($s != FALSE) print('NOT FALSE'); php > if ($s == FALSE) print('IS FALSE'); IS FALSE Peter West Peter West "...and whoever says, ‘You fool! ’ will be liable to the hell of fire" > On 2 Mar 2015, at 3:07 pm, Umberto Salsi <salsi@icosaedro.it> wrote: > > Discovered today: fopen() opens '.' and '..' but fread() returns nothing > without errors nor end-of-file, so this loop: > > $f = fopen('.', 'r'); > if( $f === FALSE ) die("fopen failed"); > $n = 0; > while(($s = fread($f, 10)) !== FALSE) > $n += strlen($s); > fclose($f); > echo "total bytes read: $n\n"; > > never ends! The same happens with '..'. Tested on PHP 5.6.3 and 7.0.0 > under Slackware 14.1 32-bits. Under Vista, instead, fopen() fails as > expected. > > Bug or specific feature under Linux? >