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

The problem is in the comparison operator, at least in *nixes. $s may be logically false (== or !=) but they are not of the same value AND type, which, I believe, is what the === and !== operators are looking for. Peter West "...and whoever says, ‘You fool! ’ will be liable to the hell of fire" > On 2 Mar 2015, at 6:31 pm, Umberto Salsi <salsi@icosaedro.it> wrote: > > lists@pbw.id.au (Peter West) wrote: > >> 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 ($s == FALSE) print('IS FALSE'); >> IS FALSE > > I get the same exact result. In fact, var_dump($s) should tell you that > $s is the empty string. So, fread() is reading nothing forever, rather > than to return FALSE as the manual page states. Anyway, in my opinion > fopen should fail immediately trying to open the current directory, > in the first place.