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Bug #29797 mkdir function doesn't work correctly when path contains forward slashes
Submitted: 2004-08-23 14:41 UTC Modified: 2005-02-14 10:51 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: arnoud at procurios dot nl Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Directory function related
PHP Version: 5.0.0 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-08-23 14:41 UTC] arnoud at procurios dot nl 
Description:
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The 'mkdir' function doesn't function correctly on Windows when the path contains forward slashes. The part of the path with the forward slashes doesn't get created.

Reproduce code:
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<?

mkdir('c:\a\b\c\d', 0775, true);
mkdir('c:\e\f\g/h', 0775, true);

?>

Expected result:
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Two directories should have been created:
c:\a\b\c\d, and
c:\e\f\g\h

Actual result:
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Actual directories being created:
c:\a\b\c\d, and
C:\e\f

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 [2004-09-01 16:56 UTC] alex dot pagnoni at solarix dot it 
Actual workaround is to check for underlying os (look inside $_ENV['OS']) and, if it is Windows, convert all forward slashes using str_replace().
 [2004-09-29 09:07 UTC] php at nowhere dot net 
The proper work around is to use the php defined constant PHP_DIR_SEPARATOR which is set according to the platform.
 [2005-01-06 03:14 UTC] aidan@php.net 
Note: The actual constant is DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.

However, in PHP, in most (all?) cases \ and / are interchangable when dealing with the filesystem.

Why shouldn't this be the case for mkdir?
 [2005-02-14 10:51 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
As far as I can see, PHP has nothing to do with it, as PHP just calls mkdir(supplied path).
And PHP doesn't use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR with mkdir(), but your system's mkdir() is failing to create directory "g/h".
On the other side "g\h" is valid name for directory on Linux and mkdir("g\h") successfully creates it.

Marking this report as bogus.
 
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