Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.1

On 23.03.2021 at 06:04, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> t fopen mode > > I'm afraid there's - despite the warning - a bunch of code for Windows > that relies on "t" and I don't think we should be breaking it. Is there > a good reason to drop this mode? I don't see much need for 't' mode nowadays. Even Notepad properly handles LF fine for some years now. It's not really bad, if it can be explicitely specified. However, deprecating 't' mode would pave the way to sometime change shell_exec() to no longer use 't' mode, what is a footgun when dealing with binary data. So when using the backtick operator on Windows, you always need to keep that in mind. From my experience, 't' mode causes more harm than good. And if there is really the need for LF conversion, that still can be done with an explicit filter. -- Christoph M. Becker