Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 fopen-wrappers.c

> If you look at our CODING_STANDARDS, you will notice that they are completely > outdated. What I fear is that new extension authors will join the PHP community > without having any decent documentation. How shall they know that they must use > PHP_CHDIR and friends in their code? In the future, there will be separate > extensions distributed from various places which are not under our control. > I think redefining chdir etc. to their virtual counterparts would proactively > prevent broken code, and thus leveraging code quality. Speaking as a relatively new member of the PHP development community...the CODING_STANDARDS tell very little about what you need to know to write a PHP extension. There are a large number of macros that must be mastered. INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, SLS_FETCH, DL_LOAD, just to name a few. I must say that I prefer what Andi has done. If I were to spend a few days tracking down a bug that turned out to be because the call I coded didn't do what I expected, I would be pretty steamed. - Sam Ruby