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Bug #48788 RecursiveDirectoryIterator doesn't descend into symlinked directories
Submitted: 2009-07-03 15:10 UTC Modified: 2009-07-08 03:10 UTC
From: craig dot marvelley at boxuk dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: SPL related
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: Linux (Debian)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-07-03 15:10 UTC] craig dot marvelley at boxuk dot com
Description:
------------
In a Windows environment, RecursiveDirectoryIterator will treat 
symlinked directories as valid directories, descending into them 
accordingly. However on Linux this isn't the case, with a symlink being 
treated as a file (leaf). 

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
// create a 'proper' directory with a file
mkdir('new_dir');
file_put_contents('new_dir/test.txt', 'test');

// create a symlink to our directory
symlink('new_dir', 'symlink_dir');

$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(__DIR__));

foreach($iterator as $object) {
    echo $object->getFilename() . "\n";
}

Expected result:
----------------
On Windows Vista, I get this (executed in file test.php):

test.txt
test.txt
test.php

Which I would expect; the symlinked directory is treated as a regular 
directory, so the test file appears twice.


Actual result:
--------------
On Linux (same scenario):

test.php
symlink_dir
test.txt
.
..
.
..

The symlinked directory appears, but as a leaf; the contents of the 
directory are not discovered.

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 [2009-07-08 03:10 UTC] iliaa@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

To avoid breaking how existing code works a new constant is introduced 
for the RecursiveDirectoryIterator() that directs the code to follow 
symlinks.
This constant RecursiveDirectoryIterator::FOLLOW_SYMLINKS can be passed 
a flag to the constructor to trigger symlink following
 
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