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Bug #21425 rename() - interesting behaviour
Submitted: 2003-01-05 05:16 UTC Modified: 2003-01-05 08:26 UTC
From: linux at psoftwares dot hu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-05 05:16 UTC] linux at psoftwares dot hu 
it's an interesting thing about the rename() function:

the code which doesn't work:
<?php
$base = "/home/phanatic/temp/";
$from = "users";
$to = "userdata";
rename ($base.$from, $base.$to);
?>

and which works (if the script is in the same dir):
<?php
$from = "users";
$to = "userdata";
rename ("./".$from, "./".$to);
?>

error message for the first code:
Warning: rename(/home/phanatic/temp/users,/home/phanatic/temp/userdata) [http://www.php.net/function.rename]: No such file or directory in /home/phanatic/temp/test_rename.php on line 8

my configure line:
./configure --with-layout=GNU --with-mysql=shared --with-pgsql=shared --with-gd=shared --with-gd2 --enable-ftp --with-calendar --with-posix --
enable-sockets --enable-cli --enable-cgi --enable-pcntl --with-bz2=shared --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include/ --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/php

hope i could provide all the infos needed to fix this problem...

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 [2003-01-05 07:13 UTC] nicos@php.net 
The error is clear it can't find /home/phanatic/temp/users, probably because of permissions or probably because it's NOT the good directory. Are you sure ./ is /home/phanatic/temp/?

Anyway this is bogus, if you need any help please take a look at http://www.php.net/support.php .


Thank you for your report.
 [2003-01-05 07:21 UTC] linux at psoftwares dot hu 
the file is there, i'm sure about it... and the script itself is in '/home/phanatic/temp', too!!! so it's not a bogus in my opinion... just test it yourself.
 [2003-01-05 07:24 UTC] nicos@php.net 
Can you please show us the permission of the directory and of the files please? 

It looks I really CAN NOT reproduce it there...

Thank you.
 [2003-01-05 07:34 UTC] linux at psoftwares dot hu 
perms of the file:
-rw-r--r--    1 phanatic phanatic       99 Jan  5 10:36 users
perms of the dir:
drwxr-xr-x    5 phanatic phanatic     4096 Jan  5 12:06 temp

but in my opinion, if this happens because of the permissions, then why does the second script work?

thanx in advance...
 [2003-01-05 07:38 UTC] derick@php.net 
Assuming that you run this script with the Command Line version (not through your webserver), can you run:

strace php yourscript.php

and put this output somewhere online? We should be able to figure out what fails in the script.

Derick
 [2003-01-05 08:26 UTC] linux at psoftwares dot hu 
solved the problem... there were really no problems, just didn't realize a bug in my script ;(

sorry for the inconvenience...
 
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