RE: [PHP-DEV] fgets()/fgetss() BC break in HEAD

Sounds like something which indeed isn't worth breaking. Was this intentional? > -----Original Message----- > From: Antony Dovgal [mailto:antony@zend.com] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:39 PM > To: php-dev > Subject: [PHP-DEV] fgets()/fgetss() BC break in HEAD > > Hello all. > > I'd like to continue recent IRC discussion here, to draw more > attention to this issue. > > At the moment functions fgets() and fgetss() are broken in > HEAD, as they return <maxlen> characters instead of <maxlen - > 1>, as they do in 5.2 (and I'm pretty sure this is the way > they used to work since their very first appearance in PHP). > So, anybody relying on fgets($fp, 10) to return 9 characters > would get 10 characters instead. > > Yes, this behaviour is not very intuitive for those who are > not familiar with fgets() in C, but it's well documented and > pretty much expected. > > I believe this is an unreasonable BC break and I strongly > believe it should be fixed. > There are 0 reasons to do it (without any discussion) and it > can only result in more users' confusion, even if the > original purpose was the contrary. > > -- > Wbr, > Antony Dovgal > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >