Re: Still having lstat trouble

So, would this be Ubuntu 7.04? I happen to have one of those boxes sitting here: 5:52pm ubuntu:~> mkdir /tmp/pear 5:52pm ubuntu:~> cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l 5:52pm ubuntu:~> uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-15-server #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:41:34 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux 5:52pm ubuntu:~> php p link link differ 5:52pm ubuntu:~> l /tmp | grep link lrwxrwxrwx 1 rasmus rasmus 9 2007-05-23 17:52 link-test -> /tmp/pear/ The 'p' script is just a copy of paste of your script from this message. -Rasmus Arnold Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > I've posted this problem some time ago, but never got a real answer and > it is still bothering me a lot. > > My problem is that PHP does not recognize a symlink as a symlink. It > seems to be dereferenced by functions like 'lstat', 'is_link' and > 'filetype'. And that isn't supposed to happen. > > The bug http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17128 describes my > problem > exactly, but is marked as bogus. Well this problem sure isn't bogus for > me. I'm having this problem, since I've updated from Ubuntu Edgy to > Feisty. Before that all worked fine. > Please note that I've not installed PHP from a repository, but I build > the latest CVS version of PHP 5 regularly myself. Also this problem only > occurs in the Apache 2 SAPI, not in the CLI version. > > Let me give an example, to make the problem clear. > > ------------ > <? > $symlink = '/tmp/link-test'; > $target = '/tmp/pear'; > > if (!file_exists($target)) trigger_error("Target '$target' does not > exist", E_USER_ERROR); > if (file_exists($symlink) && !unlink($symlink)) trigger_error("Could > not delete '$symlink'", E_USER_ERROR); > > symlink($target, $symlink); > clearstatcache(); > > /* This should output 'link' */ > echo filetype($symlink), "\n"; > > /* This should output 'link' */ > echo is_link($symlink) ? 'link' : 'not a link', "\n"; > > /* This should output 'differ' */ > echo lstat($symlink) === stat($target) ? 'same' : 'differ'; > ?> > > Expected: > link > link > differ > > Actual: > dir > not a link > same > > ------------ > > I understand that if I post this as a bug, it is tested, can't be > reproduced and marked as bogus. Therefore, I could appreciate it if > someone could please point me towards a way to pinpoint the problem. > I've run a strace already, but can't notice anything weird. > > Thanks for any help, > > Arnold >