note 42044 added to function.pclose

I'll second the note below-- our billing system written early 2003 relied on this code working: <?php $billingprogram = popen("../bill-credit-card", "w"); fwrite($billingprogram, "..."); // credit card details etc. $status = (pclose($bill)>>8) & 255; if ($status == 0) { /* transaction successful, mark payment as taken, hooray */ } else { /* email customer asking them to phone in some new card details */ } ?> Can you see what happened when someone decided to change pclose and we upgraded our PHP in February? Yup, every transaction came back as successful. Lots of unbilled customers, a couple of thousand pounds missing, and some seriously confused accounting. Beware. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pclose.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42044 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42044&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42044&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php