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Bug #48746 Unable to browse directories within Junction Points
Submitted: 2009-06-30 17:19 UTC Modified: 2010-07-12 14:22 UTC
Votes:13
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.7
Reproduced:12 of 12 (100.0%)
Same Version:9 (75.0%)
Same OS:6 (50.0%)
From: ddkees at illinois dot edu Assigned: pajoye (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Directory function related
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: win32 only - Windows Server 2003
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-06-30 17:19 UTC] ddkees at illinois dot edu
Description:
------------
After updating this morning (June 30) to 5.3.0, our __autoload() function failed to identify any classes located in subfolders of the windows Junction Point which contains our class files.  

Our __autoload() function is recursive, descending into the filesystem looking for class files which match the one that we're trying to load.  However, since the /includes/classes folder is a Junction Point, only other Junction Points return true when we use both is_dir() and DirectoryIterator::isDir() to try and identify folders from files.  DirectoryIterator::isLink() also returns false.  

However, if we change our __autoloader() to include files from the source of the Junction Point, it works as expected, but this is only a solution for a sub-set of the sites that are available on our server.

Reproduce code:
---------------
function __autoload($class) {
	if(!function_exists("find_file")) {
		function find_file($directory, $target) {
			$dir = opendir($directory);
			while(($file = readdir($dir))!==false) {
				if($file == "_notes" || substr($file, 0, 1)==".") continue;
				if(is_dir($directory . "/" . $file)) find_file($directory . "/" . $file, $target);
				elseif(basename($file, ".php") == $target) { require_once($directory . "/" . $file); return; }
			}
		}
	}
		
	find_file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "includes/classes", strtolower($class));
}

Expected result:
----------------
The expected result is that starting from $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOt"] . "/includes/classes" we identify folders and descend into them to look for a file named $class.php where $class is the parameter sent to __autoload().  When that file is found, it's included.

Actual result:
--------------
No folders are actually traversed, either when using the code above or when altering it to use the DirectoryIteratory SPL object.  All non-Junction Points return false from is_dir() and, as a result, they are never traversed and the system will also attempt to include them as files if the elseif-conditional evaluates to true.

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 [2009-06-30 17:35 UTC] ddkees at illinois dot edu
It should be noted, that using 5.2.9-1 works exactly as expected.
 [2009-06-30 17:58 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please provide a simple example to show what exactly does not work, which function or method exactly and using which path:

- describe the directory tree you use and which parts of it are junction
- provide a simple script to show which function(s) fail(s)


 [2009-06-30 19:10 UTC] ddkees at illinois dot edu
The file structure looks like this.  Junction points are followed by an asterisk; that asterisk is _not_ a part of the folder's name within the filesystem.

/
/includes
/includes/classes*
/includes/classes/.SwiftMailer
/includes/classes/course_websites
/includes/classes/directory
/includes/classes/faculty_awards*
/includes/classes/FirePHP

There are more folders than what's listed above, but that's enough to give you the idea, I hope.  If not, let me know.

As you can see from the code example above, we start the process in /includes/classes and look for folders/files to identify class definitions to include.  Using this code and 5.3.0 this morning, we found that, using the above list, only the faculty_awards junction point would be identified as a directory when using is_dir() and when using DirectoryIterator::isDir().

Here's a script to show what fails:

function find_directories($directory) {
	$files = new DirectoryIterator($directory);
	foreach($files as $file) {
		if($file->isDot() || $file->getFilename()=="_notes") continue;
		
		echo "Analyzing: $file<br>";
		var_dump($file->isDir());
		echo "Analysis Complete.<br><br>";
	}
}

---

If we execute that function as follows:

   find_directories($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/includes/classes");

We would expect that all of the information listed above would result in true.  However, the actual results of that test were:

Analyzing: .SwiftMailer
bool(false) Analysis Complete

Analyzing: course_websites
bool(false) Analysis Complete

Analyzing: directories
bool(false) Analysis Complete

Analyzing: faculty_awards
bool(true) Analysis Complete

Analyzing: FirePHP
bool(false) Analysis Complete
 [2009-06-30 20:30 UTC] dr dot e dot sheppard at web dot de
This bug can easily be reproduced with the following scenario:

- change to a directory within your webserver's document root
- create a junction named "apps" pointing to the desired target within the directory tree
- calling a php file (residing in parallel to the "apps" folder) with the following code:

if(file_exists('./apps') === true){ 
   echo 'yes!';
} else {
   echo 'no!';
}

The result will be "no!".
 [2009-08-10 15:40 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@dr dot e dot sheppard at web dot de

Can you try using CLI/CGI please? As you can see below it works just fine.

C:\Users\pierre\Documents\php-sdk\php53\vc9\x86>dir
..
10.08.2009  17:36    <JUNCTION>     apps [C:\Users\pierre\Documents\php-sdk\php53\vc9\x86\deps]
28.07.2009  00:59    <DIR>          deps
...


php.exe -r "var_dump(file_exists('./apps'));"
bool(true)

 [2009-08-10 20:17 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
cgi executable does not seem to make a difference. This is a console log of a test I just ran:

C:\mnt\test>type phptest.php
<?php
var_dump(file_exists('junction'));
var_dump(file_exists('directory'));
?>
C:\mnt\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is coreI7_System
 Volume Serial Number is 38E2-2B62

 Directory of C:\mnt\test

2009.08.10  16.11    <DIR>          .
2009.08.10  16.11    <DIR>          ..
2009.08.10  16.10    <DIR>          directory
2009.08.10  16.10    <JUNCTION>     junction [\??\Volume{e13ba66a-14db-11de-8e96-001fd0ae05ac}\]
2009.08.10  16.11                82 phptest.php
               1 File(s)             82 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  24,899,223,552 bytes free

C:\mnt\test>php.exe phptest.php
bool(false)
bool(true)

C:\mnt\test>php-cgi.exe phptest.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.0
Content-type: text/html

bool(false)
bool(true)

C:\mnt\test>
 [2009-08-10 20:23 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Ok, seems to be 2k3 specific. The same setup works on 2k8/vista/win7. Thanks for your feedback!
 [2009-08-10 21:41 UTC] pajoye@php.net
and confirmed using XP SP3 as well.

For the record, get the junction command here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx
 [2009-08-10 22:30 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
For what it's worth, I've reproduced the incorrect behavior on the following OSes so far:
Windows 7 x64
Vista x64 SP2
Server 2003 x64 SP2
XP SP2

For other readers, these are the submitted issues I've found that may be related to this bug:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48778
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48746
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48975
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49039
 [2009-08-11 05:39 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Sorry but I can't reproduce it on vista/win7/2k8 but only on 2k3 and xp.

How exactly did you create the junctions on these platforms? It looks like you create a junction to the root of another drive, right?
 [2009-08-11 06:32 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Did you mount another drive in c:\mnt?
 [2009-08-11 12:26 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
'mnt' is a regular directory. 'junction' was indeed pointing to the root of a volume. However, I get exactly the same behavior if I create the junction as a link to anouther directory via the junction.exe from sysinternals. Again, this is a log from Windows 7 x64:



C:\mnt\test>type phptest.php
<?php
var_dump(file_exists('junction'));
var_dump(file_exists('directory'));
?>
C:\mnt\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is coreI7_System
 Volume Serial Number is 38E2-2B62

 Directory of C:\mnt\test

2009.08.10  16.11    <DIR>          .
2009.08.10  16.11    <DIR>          ..
2009.08.11  08.22    <DIR>          directory
2009.08.10  16.10    <JUNCTION>     junction [\??\C:\mnt\test\directory]
2009.08.10  16.11                82 phptest.php
               1 File(s)             82 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  24,210,726,912 bytes free

C:\mnt\test>php.exe phptest.php
bool(false)
bool(true)
 [2009-08-26 20:44 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287781
Log: - fix #48746, regression with file operaiton on path with junctions
 [2009-08-26 20:44 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please follow #48746, same problem. I close (bogus) this bug to avoid to have to split the info in too many reports.
 [2009-08-26 20:45 UTC] pajoye@php.net
help if I comment in the right bug :) (reassigned)
 [2009-08-26 20:46 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please try using this snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/


 [2009-08-27 03:40 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
From my testing, this snapshot works for directory junction points created with mklink. However still no go on mounted volumes or directory junction points created with junction.exe.

Re-creating any faulting junctions with mklink seems like a good workaround, but mounted volumes are still left in the cold.

Looking at the output of the dir command, the only visible difference between mklink and junction.exe is the prepended "\??\", which is also present on mounted volumes by necessity. 

Full test log follows:

C:\mnt\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is coreI7_System
 Volume Serial Number is 38E2-2B62

 Directory of C:\mnt\test

2009.08.26  23.32    <DIR>          .
2009.08.26  23.32    <DIR>          ..
2009.08.11  16.35    <DIR>          directory
2009.08.11  14.47    <JUNCTION>     junction [\??\C:\mnt\test\directory]
2009.08.20  13.26    <JUNCTION>     mklink_junction [C:\mnt\test\directory]
2009.08.26  23.26    <JUNCTION>     mounted_volume [\??\Volume{e13ba66a-14db-11de-8e96-001fd0ae05ac}
\]
2009.08.26  23.32               283 phptest.php
               1 File(s)            283 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  28,765,544,448 bytes free

C:\mnt\test>php -v
PHP 5.3.1-dev (cli) (built: Aug 27 2009 03:52:14)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

C:\mnt\test>type phptest.php
<?php
echo "directory:\t\t"; var_dump(file_exists("directory"));
echo "junction.exe junction:\t"; var_dump(file_exists("junction"));
echo "mklink junction:\t";  var_dump(file_exists("mklink_junction"));
echo "mounted volume:\t\t"; var_dump(file_exists("mounted_volume"));


?>
C:\mnt\test>php phptest.php
directory:              bool(true)
junction.exe junction:  bool(false)
mklink junction:        bool(true)
mounted volume:         bool(false)
 [2009-08-27 08:42 UTC] pajoye@php.net
 "\??\"  may be the cause (\\?\ is well documented not \??\). But I wonder why junction.exe jucntion work just fine on our tests system (xp and 2k3). Thanks for testing, I go back to code&test.
 [2009-08-27 09:24 UTC] pajoye@php.net
To do not miss a case again, can you please tell me how you create each mounted volume or junction? If mnt is a mounted volume or not, etc.

Junction created with junction.exe works fine here on xp, 2k3, win7, vista and 2k8, using normal parent directories (mounted volume or not).

For example (XP):
c:\mnt mounted volume (HDD)
c:\mnt\directory (mkdir directory)
c:\mnt\junction_abs (created with junction junction c:\mnt\directory)
c:\mnt\junction (created with junction junction directory from c:\mnt)

Using this script from c:\mnt\test (c:\mnt being a mounted volume):
<?php
var_dump(file_exists('directory'));
var_dump(file_exists('junction_abs'));
var_dump(file_exists('junction'));

C:\mnt\test>\php-sdk\snap_5_2\vc6\x86\php52\Debug\php.exe t.php
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)




 [2009-08-27 09:39 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287800
Log: - Fix for #48746, fix mounted volume and junctions when used from vista or later, they are actually prepended with \??\
 [2009-08-27 09:50 UTC] pajoye@php.net
And confirmed your last cases using Win7/Vista/2k8. In this case junction are prepended with \??\.  Fix applied, the next snap should have it.
 [2009-08-27 19:37 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Ok, this snap seems to get everything except mounted volumes for me.

test output is now:
C:\mnt\test>php phptest.php
directory:              bool(true)
junction.exe junction:  bool(true)
mklink junction:        bool(true)
mounted volume:         bool(false)

I've found 3 ways to create volume junction points on Win 7: Through the mountvol command, thourgh the mklink command, and though the diskmgmt.msc GUI. They all result in the same behavior.

I also just found that mklink can create symlinks to volumes, which, alas, also fail. (symlinks to directories & files work fine) 'dir' command for symlinks vs. junctions to volumes looks like this:

2009.08.27  15.18    <SYMLINKD>     test2 [\\?\Volume{c7981ed5-d602-11dd-ac24-806e6f6e6963}\]
2009.08.27  15.19    <JUNCTION>     test3 [\\?\Volume{c7981ed5-d602-11dd-ac24-806e6f6e6963}\]


For the record, the following command sequence can be used to re-create my test setup... c:\mnt & c:\mnt\test are regular directories. 

C:\mnt\test>mkdir directory

C:\mnt\test>junction junction directory

Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Mark Russinovich
Systems Internals - http://www.sysinternals.com

Created: C:\mnt\test\junction
Targetted at: C:\mnt\test\directory

C:\mnt\test>mklink /j mklink_junction directory
Junction created for mklink_junction <<===>> directory

C:\mnt\test>mklink /j mounted_volume \\?\Volume{c7981ed5-d602-11dd-ac24-806e6f6e6963}\
Junction created for mounted_volume <<===>> \\?\Volume{c7981ed5-d602-11dd-ac24-806e6f6e6963}\

C:\mnt\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is coreI7_System
 Volume Serial Number is 38E2-2B62

 Directory of C:\mnt\test

2009.08.27  15.29    <DIR>          .
2009.08.27  15.29    <DIR>          ..
2009.08.27  15.27    <DIR>          directory
2009.08.27  15.27    <JUNCTION>     junction [\??\C:\mnt\test\directory]
2009.08.27  15.28    <JUNCTION>     mklink_junction [C:\mnt\test\directory]
2009.08.27  15.29    <JUNCTION>     mounted_volume [\\?\Volume{c7981ed5-d602-11dd-ac24-806e6f6e6963}
\]
2009.08.27  15.23               451 phptest.php
               1 File(s)            451 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  28,746,731,520 bytes free

C:\mnt\test>php phptest.php
directory:              bool(true)
junction.exe junction:  bool(true)
mklink junction:        bool(true)
mounted volume:         bool(false)

Thanks for your work on this, unfortunately, my inability to keep track of drive letters means I use a lot of mounted volumes...
 [2009-08-29 12:21 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287877
Log: - Fix #48746, mounted volume support & resolution
 [2009-08-29 12:23 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Thanks for the testing! :)

Added support for mounted volumes (and path resolutions for them). The next snapshots (5.3+) should have it.
 [2009-08-29 20:34 UTC] shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com
Still not working correctly in latest snapshot: now if you have

dir1 directory
subdir1 subdirectory of dir1

dir2 directory
junction1 junction to subdir1 created in dir2

and from a file accessed as dir2/junction1/file.php you reference to the ../ dir, you get to the dir1 directory, while the correct behaviour is to get to dir2!

You can see the difference if you try this setup with 5.2.10, which works ok.
 [2009-08-30 02:09 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com
It is not correct, the correct behavior is relative to the target of the link/junction, as it is on any other supported platforms with link support. It was not the case in 5.2 but php did not support links correctly (no link at all, and only partially for junction or mounted drive).
 [2009-08-30 03:30 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Latest snapshot give correct behavior for me. Thanks much.
 [2009-08-30 04:41 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Hmmm. may have spoke too soon. Getting some weird results when working with mounted volumes.

'C:\mnt\test\mounted_volume' is a junction mounted volume that is *not* the system drive ie: not c:\

Take the following sequence of commands, working directory is 'C:\mnt\test\':

is_dir('mounted_volume'); 
Returns true, yay!

scandir('mounted_volume'); 
Here's the strange behavior; this command enumerates the root system drive, c:\, rather than the correct pointed-to volume.

mkdir('mounted_volume\test34'); 
Returns true, but test32 is created on the incorrect volume: c:\test32 now exists

is_dir('mounted_volume\test34');
Returns FALSE, this is the correct behavior because the directory does not exist in the correct location, but it is obviously inconsistent with the above mkdir

unlink('mounted_volume\test34');
Throws a 'No such file or directory' warning. Appears to be looking in the correct place.

My previous tests all used c:\ as the 'mounted volume' which is why I didn't see this at first.
 [2009-08-30 10:39 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Using different drives work fine here (ie. G, Z or whatever else).

Did you test it using CLI? And running each test separately or using one single script with all tests (stat cache will be used in this case)?

Which windows version?


 [2009-08-30 11:17 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Found the problems, the windows port of dirent (scandir) as well as php_mkdir (used by mkdir()) lack a call to realpath, making them use the current path with the standard API. It ends to use c:.

Testing the patch but it should do it for RC1 next Tuesday. You can test the patch yourself by calling realpath manually:

scandir(realpath('mounted_volume')); or mkdir(realpath('mounted_volume\\test34'));

Other files operations work as expected.
 [2009-08-30 13:00 UTC] shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com
@ pajoye:

Sorry, but i don't understand why the correct behaviour should be that of 5.3:

dir1 directory
subdir1 subdirectory of dir1
cfg.php file in dir1

dir2 directory
cfg.php file in dir2
junction1 junction to subdir1 created in dir2

and i have in dir1/subdir1/file.php:
	require_once("../cfg.php");

I expect that if i run dir1/subdir1/file.php i get
	require_once("dir1/cfg.php");

BUT if i run dir2/subdir1/file.php i will get
	require_once("dir2/cfg.php");

Could you please tell me why this would be wrong? File inclusions have always been relative to the path of the main php file that's executing...

Thanks!
 [2009-08-30 13:06 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com

Not with symlink/link/etc. You can try it under unix as well:

/var/www/dir1
/var/www/test.txt
/var/www/dir2
/var/www/dir2/linktodir1
/var/www/dir2/test2.txt
/var/www/dir2/linktodir1/t.php

In t.php, ../test2.txt will fail because it will use dir1 as base direct. That's how it always worked, windows had only partial support for links (symbolic or hard) or junctions. It worked before but it was not correct (and not portable).
 [2009-09-01 17:46 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287949
Log: - #48746, fix regression in readdir/scandir and mounted points or junctions on windows
 [2009-09-01 17:51 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287950
Log: - #48746, revert previous about volume. Fix volume support to allow all mounted points (with or without drives)
 [2009-09-01 17:54 UTC] pajoye@php.net
scandir has been fixed (not directly related to this issue) as well as the mounted points issues. All regressions should be fixed now. Can you give it a try please? The next snapshot will have the fixes.
 [2009-09-02 09:31 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Everything seems to be working as of the latest snapshot, thanks.
 [2009-09-02 10:12 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
sorry, found another mounted volume issue:

is_dir reutrns true when passed a file on a mounted volume. Additionaly, chdir retruns true when passed that file.

eg: is_dir('c:\mounted_volume\image.jpg'); returns true. image.jpg is a file and mounted_volume is a junction point mounted volume.
 [2009-09-02 10:30 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Oh my, I'm about to loose my last hair :)

But we are getting close now... back to code
 [2009-09-02 10:35 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Can't reproduce here. Which OS are you using for this test?
 [2009-09-02 21:29 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Using Windows 7 x64. It seems all files in my mounted volumes are being treated as directories. (is_dir returns true, is_file returns false.) Directory operations pointed at files seem to point back to the root of the volume.

The following script:
echo "dumping: scandir('mounted_volume')\n";
var_dump(scandir('mounted_volume'));
echo "dumping: scandir('mounted_volume\\file1')\n";
var_dump(scandir('mounted_volume\file1'));

gives this output:



dumping: scandir('mounted_volume')
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(12) "$RECYCLE.BIN"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "dir1"
  [2]=>
  string(4) "dir2"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "file1"
}
dumping: scandir('mounted_volume\file1')
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(12) "$RECYCLE.BIN"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "dir1"
  [2]=>
  string(4) "dir2"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "file1"
}

Nesting does not seem to matter, eg: scandir('mounted_volume\dir1\file_in_dir1'); gives the same output


Something else that's interesting... When I create the junction from a drive letter, eg: "mklink mounted_volume y:" everything works perfectly, files are files and dirs are dirs. It's only when I use the volume name in the creation ("mklink /J mounted_volume \\?\Volume{feeac7c1-2ad0-11de-89bb-001fd0ae05ac}\") that I get this strange behavior. Bizarre, but I swear I'm not making this up :)
 [2009-09-02 22:59 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=287975
Log: - #48746, len includes null already
 [2009-09-02 23:26 UTC] pajoye@php.net
I can't reproduce the problem with is_dir or is_file behave correctly, however I think I found the problem and commited a fix.

I can reproduce the scandir one, same fix. I manually launched a build, you can get the vc9-x86 here: http://is.gd/2OtDf (other snaps should be online within 15mins).


 [2009-09-03 10:10 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
I'm getting good test behavior from the that snapshot. More tellingly, the original script I've been trying to run is now working correctly.

Thanks.
 [2009-09-04 08:11 UTC] mats dot lindh at gmail dot com
Everything seems to work OK with a build from 2009-09-03. Thanks for fixing the issue!
 [2009-09-04 11:44 UTC] shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com
Sorry but the latest snapshot still has problems:

Dir      directory
one.php  file in dir directory
Dir2     junction in dir to dir3 on another drive
two.php  file in dir3

in one.php:
is_file(./dir2/two.php) returns FALSE!

Working on XP SP3 under Apache 2.2.13
 [2009-09-04 17:26 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com

I suppose you mean:
c:\Dir
   |_ one.php
   |_ Dir3 (junction to d:\dir)
      |_ two.php

Using this constellation, here is my output on xp SP3:

C:\mnt>junction dir3
Junction v1.05 - ..
...
C:\mnt\dir3: JUNCTION
   Substitute Name: c:\test

C:\mnt>\test\php53vc6ts\php.exe one.php
bool(true)


Are you sure:
- apache has been restarted after the update?
- the right version is used?

Can you try in CLI as well please?


 [2009-09-04 17:36 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@shoresofnowhere at gmail dot com

ok, I can reproduce it now. I will come back as soon as I have a fix.
 [2009-09-04 17:50 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please note that it is again a XP/2k3 only issue. Debugging/fixing now.
 [2009-09-04 18:32 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Ignore my last two comments, it works perfectly using what you describe. I was testing it from another VM where this junction did not exist.

I added a include 'dir3/two.php' to one.php, two.php being a simple echo "two.php"
The output:

C:\test>\php53\debug_ts\php.exe -n one.php
two.php
bool(true)

C:\test>junction dir3
....

C:\test\dir3: JUNCTION
   Substitute Name: e:\test


C:\test>dir dir3
 ...
09/04/2009  07:33 PM                24 two.php
               1 File(s)             24 bytes
               2 Dir(s)     202,975,232 bytes free

 [2009-09-04 20:20 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
I was able replicate shoresofnowhere's behavior using windows 7...


I created a junction to a folder on another drive; running is_file() on a file inside that junction returned false, as did is_dir(). Curious to see what php thought it was looking at, I tested filetype(), which threw an error.

I then tested symlinks in the same manner, and got good behavior. Symlinks seem to be a good workaround for this issue.

Test log follows:


C:\mnt\test>mklink /J junction_otherDrive f:\downloads
Junction created for junction_otherDrive <<===>> f:\downloads

C:\mnt\test>mklink /D symlink_otherDrive f:\downloads
symbolic link created for symlink_otherDrive <<===>> f:\downloads

C:\mnt\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is coreI7_System
 Volume Serial Number is 38E2-2B62

 Directory of C:\mnt\test

2009.09.04  16.05    <DIR>          .
2009.09.04  16.05    <DIR>          ..
2009.09.04  16.05    <JUNCTION>     junction_otherDrive [f:\downloads]
2009.09.04  16.05    <SYMLINKD>     symlink_otherDrive [f:\downloads]
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  30,034,223,104 bytes free

C:\mnt\test>php -r var_dump(filetype('junction_otherdrive'));
PHP Warning:  filetype(): Lstat failed for junction_otherdrive in Command line code on line 1

Warning: filetype(): Lstat failed for junction_otherdrive in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)

C:\mnt\test>php -r var_dump(filetype('junction_otherdrive\php-5.2.0-win32-installer.msi'));
PHP Warning:  filetype(): Lstat failed for junction_otherdrive\php-5.2.0-win32-installer.msi in Comm
and line code on line 1

Warning: filetype(): Lstat failed for junction_otherdrive\php-5.2.0-win32-installer.msi in Command l
ine code on line 1
bool(false)

C:\mnt\test>php -r var_dump(filetype('symlink_otherdrive'));
string(3) "dir"

C:\mnt\test>php -r var_dump(filetype('symlink_otherdrive\php-5.2.0-win32-installer.msi'));
string(4) "file"
 [2009-09-04 20:45 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@[4 Sep 8:20pm UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com

Using is_dir and is_file or file_exists and the cases you described, does it work? (I don't think the filetype issue is related to what we discuss here).
 [2009-09-04 20:59 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
Using junctions: is_file and file_exists are giving incorrect behavior (false on files). is_dir as well, false on directories in the junction and the junction itself.

The same functions are working well with symlinks.

If you need testing for this, you have mail.
 [2009-09-05 16:34 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please try using:

http://windows.php.net/downloads/qa/test/php-5.3.2-dev-Win32-VC9-x86.zip

It is a striped down build (thread safe). Only CLI is available but no worry, it behaves the same than apache in TS mode.
 [2009-09-05 18:10 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=288085
Log: - add test for #48746
 [2009-09-05 22:51 UTC] phpstuff at cresstone dot com
That build fixed it for me.
 [2009-09-14 18:46 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=288339
Log: - Fix #48746, improve fix to support all possible cases (see latest comment in the report)
 [2009-09-14 18:49 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Please try using this snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/

The next snapshot (in 1-2h) will have the fix as in the tiny php build I provided earlier.
 [2009-09-20 04:12 UTC] sant9442 at gmail dot com
Hi, 

This is a note for the bug archives.

I just discovered that the bug reported in #49039 which was merged with this bug entry, can also be reproduced when the web server spawning PHP-CGI.EXE incorrectly prepares the CGI environment string:

    PATH_INFO

The correct "official" (IETF) standard definition is in RFC 3875:

   "The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1":
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875 

If PATH_INFO is incorrect, the function sapi_cgi_register_variables() sapi\cgi\cgi_main.c, which effectively does:

    PHP_SELF = SCRIPT_NAME + PATH_INFO

will potentially cause the same "No input file specified" behavior we saw in bug #49039.  

The original bug #49039 report indicated a script in a sub-folder name with 3 letters, e.g.;

    /public/pwe/test.php

would yield a file not found response.  

It was found if the server-side document root was a junction point, the no input file error was produced. 

    c:\web\HTTP\public\pwe

where C:\WEB\HTTP is a junction, like using SysInternals.com Junction.EXE utility:

   C:
   CD \WEB
   junction HTTP D:\WEB_SRC\HTTP_REV1.2.3.4

We internally use junctions in this way to test various versions of our html templates.

Eventually it was determined by pajoye@php.net the PHP 5.3 logic for resolving junctions has some issues to address and that is when I last left this issue until now.

Recently, in an independent report related to PHP_SELF, we found out our web server was not creating the environment string PATH_INFO CGI correctly per RFC 3875.  

This serve issue was just fixed and after seeing how PHP expects PHP_SELF to be created using PATH_INFO, I was curious if the web server PATH_INFO fix also fixes #49039.  

Well, indeed it appears that it does fix it, even when the document root is a junction point.

For the curious, our WEB SERVER first supported real CGI binary processes, no script maps, for example for a URI with:

   http://example.com/cgi-bin/applet.exe/file.txt?p1=v1

its parts are:

    SCRIPT_NAME     = "/cgi-bin/applet.exe"
    QUERY_STRING    = "p1=v1"
    PATH_INFO       = "/file.txt"

if for the sake of example, the document root is:

    DOCUMENT_ROOT   = "c:\web\http"

then PATH_TRANSLATED is:

    PATH_TRANSLATED = "c:\web\http\file.txt"

When script mapping support was added, including support for specific PHP's SCRIPT_FILENAME environment string, a bug was apparently introduced for creating PATH_INFO.  So in an valid URI with a PHP script map:

    http://example.com/test.php/file.txt?p1=v2

Our web server correctly created:

    DOCUMENT_ROOT    = "c:\web\http"
    SCRIPT_NAME      = "/test.php"
    QUERY_STRING     = "p1=v1"
    SCRIPT_FILENAME  = "c:\web\http\test.php"
    PATH_TRANSLATED  = "c:\web\http\file.txt"
    
but incorrectly created:

    PATH_INFO        = "/test.php/file.txt"

So when PHP-CGI started and created PHP_SELF in cgi_main.c

    PHP_SELF = SCRIPT_NAME + PATH_INFO

its value was now:

    PHP_SELF = "/test.php/test.php/file.txt"

thus the "no input file found" PHP response.

As noted, this as fixed in our web sever, and it appears to resolve also bug #49039. I am sure inadvertingly the junction point issues were legit and being (and had been?) addressed, I am just nothing as it another possible reason caused by a web server not correctly implementing PATH_INFO per RFC 3875.
 [2009-09-22 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2009-10-02 15:05 UTC] patrick dot boens at latosensu dot be
This bug is actually preventing us from using 5.3 at all! We have a framework that is used for ?60 sites; each of them contains a junction that points to 1 single instance of the framework.
 [2009-10-02 15:12 UTC] pajoye@php.net
@patrick dot boens at latosensu dot be 

Why don't you try a snapshot? It is fixed in SVN.
 [2009-10-02 15:13 UTC] pajoye@php.net
And let close that one as well.

Please see #48746. Same issue, all discussions/feedbacks will be followed there.
 [2009-10-02 15:14 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Damned, wrong id :)

That's the correct bug to follow. It is fixed in SVN and has to be mrerged to PHP_5_3_1 (branch for 5.3.1). Assigned back to me so it won't move to "no feedback" (stupid feature).
 [2009-10-09 14:05 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=289414
Log: - Merge Fix for #48746, improve fix for junctions/symlink/etc.
 [2009-10-19 23:43 UTC] svn@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=289782
Log: - MF53: Fix #48746, improve fix to support all possible cases (see latest comment in the report)
 [2009-10-25 22:21 UTC] pajoye@php.net
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

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.


 [2010-07-12 13:43 UTC] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com
I don't know if the following behaviour regarding __FILE__ is intended, or if it's a regression due to the patch for this bug.
Config test: Win 7, PHP 5.3.2 and 5.2.6 (VC6)

I created the following structure:
  H:\www\directory
  H:\www\junction  (=> H:\www\directory, created with junction.exe or any other tool)
  H:\www\symlink   (=> directory, created with mklink.exe)

The test case is file.php:
<?php echo __FILE__; ?>

In PHP 5.3.2:
C:\php-cli.532>php.exe H:\www\directory\file.php
H:\www\directory\file.php

C:\php-cli.532>php.exe H:\www\junction\file.php
H:\www\directory\file.php

C:\php-cli.532>php.exe H:\www\symlink\file.php
H:\www\directory\file.php


This is not the case in, for instance, 5.2.6, which returns the correct paths.
Haven't tested in the SAPIs if the result is the same.

Can someone with win XP (pre-Vista) please try if the case with a junction yields the same output?

Test case 2:
<?php
var_dump(lstat('H:\\www\\directory'));
var_dump(lstat('H:\\www\\junction'));
var_dump(lstat('H:\\www\\symlink'));
?>

All three outputs are the same, despite having different timestamps and using lstat. Once again, 5.2.6 gives correct results.
 [2010-07-12 13:49 UTC] pajoye@php.net
M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com:

That's expected. 5.2 did not support link or junction resolutions.
 [2010-07-12 13:52 UTC] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com
Replying to myself:
I think this is by design.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php says:

__FILE__  	 The full path and filename of the file. If used inside an include, the name of the included file is returned. Since PHP 4.0.2, __FILE__ always contains an absolute path with symlinks resolved whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances. 

Maybe $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] should be used instead?
 [2010-07-12 13:58 UTC] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com
pajoye at php dot net:
I get your point, but what about the lstat() part ?
"Gathers the statistics of the file or symbolic link named by filename."

Shouldn't it work for directory symlinks as well?
 [2010-07-12 14:05 UTC] pajoye@php.net
The results in 5.3 are correct.
 [2010-07-12 14:16 UTC] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com
I don't know if at this point I should file a new defect.

Let's say we have this structure:
H:\www\site1\media\junction ( => I:\resources)

Let's say we call page.php in a browser:
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] is 'h:/www/(etc.)'
dirname(...) works OK.

<?php
require_once( dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']). "/../inc/config.php" );
?>
will yield an error: it does not try to load
  H:\www\site1\media\inc\config.php
but
  I:\inc\config.php (I:\resources/../inc/config.php)

Also, a realpath() on the included string returns false.
 [2010-07-12 14:22 UTC] pajoye@php.net
It is the way it works on all platforms. It was only not support on windows with 5.2. However 5.3 and later support symlinks and junctions.

Please read the documentation about symlink support in php and how they work. There is no bug here.
 [2011-11-17 01:04 UTC] php dot 10 dot davidsfcd at spamgourmet dot com
I have this issue with PHP 5.3.8, I'm running PHP under FastCGI under its own Security Principal.

My PHP codebase uses CakePHP, when I run the project off a local HDD then the application works perfectly, but when I run the project off a directory that is an NTFS Symbolic Link to a UNC share on another server then PHP fails to load files specified by CakePHP.

I've gone into the code and I can't see anything that would cause this to fail besides a regressive bug in PHP.

I get the same problems with PHP 5.2.17
And with PHP 5.3.0 nothing works at all and PHP refuses to touch anything that goes through an NTFS junction point. Strange.
 
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