How do you run this test?

I have run this test with 'make test' as part of the whole suite, and also directly with:

# ./sapi/cli/php -c /etc/php.ini ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

and

# ./sapi/cli/php ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

Fails in all three cases for PHP 4.4, 4.3.11, and 4.3.8.
The first test works, the second one which uses md5_file() to create a hash over the php executable itself, fails with the errors I reported.  I suspect it's something particular to RHEL 3.0 but have not had a chance to test on a Fedora Core 2 system yet.

The problem is with TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE environment variable being set to something wrong? Are you setting it yourself?
What shell are you using? What is it set to in Makefile ?
Have you tried latest CVS snapshot?

>./sapi/cli/php ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

Ugh..Don't do it, please. These tests should not be run directly.
You must use run-tests.php for running them.

Please try to this:
TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=./sapi/cli/php && ./sapi/cli/php run-tests.php ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

Shell is RHEL 3.0 /bin/bash.

# echo $TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/php-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php

# ls -al `echo $TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE`
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      6254005 Aug 10 21:50 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/php-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php

From the Makefile:

TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=$(top_builddir)/$(SAPI_CLI_PATH)

top_builddir = /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/php-4.3.8

SAPI_CLI_PATH = sapi/cli/php

The Makefile matches this, which is where the unstriped executable is:

# echo $TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/php-4.3.8/sapi/cli/php

As per Tony's suggestion (thanks, but doesn't work, sorry I forgot that I also tried 'run-tests.php'):

# TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=./sapi/cli/php && ./sapi/cli/php run-tests.php ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

=====================================================================
CWD         : /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/php-4.3.8
PHP         : ./sapi/cli/php 
PHP_SAPI    : cli
PHP_VERSION : 4.3.8
ZEND_VERSION: 1.3.0
PHP_OS      : Linux - Linux db.pheedo.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:52:23 EDT 2005 i686
INI actual  : /etc/php.ini
More .INIs  : /etc/php.d/imap.ini,/etc/php.d/ldap.ini
Extra dirs  : 
=====================================================================
Running selected tests.
FAIL Bug #22414: passthru() does not read data correctly [ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt]

Output from this run is the same:

# more ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.out
HELLO
Does not work

I haven't tried the CVS snapshot because we've given up on getting PHP 4.4 to build and work on RHEL 3.0 for now.  The fact that this test fails on three different RHEL 3.0 servers w/three different PHP versions (4.3.8, 4.3.11, 4.4) is what makes me think there's a problem with this script on RHEL 3.0.  The test script is the same in all three distributions, and it fails in the same way on all three, and I've written some simple passthru() tests myself and the function seems to work just fine, it's the test script.

Could be that passthru() is failing on RHEL 3.0 for all these versions as my own tests are pretty simple.  Thanks!

More info:

===============================================================================
BUILD ENVIRONMENT
===============================================================================
OS:
Linux - Linux db.pheedo.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:52:23 EDT \
2005 i686

Automake:
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Autoconf:
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

All your output here shows version 4.3.8. Please do the tests REALLY with PHP 4.4.0 or rather with the latest CVS snapshot of PHP 5.1 (http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz)

Hi Sniper,

Sorry about that, here's the run on PHP 4.4 vs. PHP 4.3.8, the failure and output are the same, note this is a different host name, the one where I'm trying to build PHP 4.4.  If you need any more info please let me know.  This is from the PHP 4.4 sources pulled on 1 Aug 2005:

# TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=./sapi/cli/php && ./sapi/cli/php run-tests.php ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

=====================================================================
CWD         : /usr/local/src/Tars/php-4.4.0
PHP         : ./sapi/cli/php 
PHP_SAPI    : cli
PHP_VERSION : 4.4.0
ZEND_VERSION: 1.3.0
PHP_OS      : Linux - Linux dev.pheedo.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:52:23 EDT 2005 i686
INI actual  : /etc/php.ini
More .INIs  : /etc/php.d/mhash.ini,/etc/php.d/mysql.ini
Extra dirs  : 
=====================================================================
Running selected tests.
FAIL Bug #22414: passthru() does not read data correctly [ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt]

Can't run these tests against PHP 5.1 - we are running PHP 4.3.2 on our servers and want to upgrade to PHP 4.4 if possible but do not want to move to PHP 5.1 yet, our application will require a lot of testing with PHP 5 before we make that migration.  Our goal right now is simply to get to PHP 4.4 for the bug and security fixes and to test our application against it as well as upgrade MySQL from 3.x to 4.1-1, and then migrate to PHP 5.x at some later date.  Thanks, Rob

You're running the test wrong. Use 'make test' or 'make test TESTS=<pathtotestsyouwanttorun>'.

Secondly: I wasn't saying you need to move to PHP 5.1, I simply asked you to TEST if this happens with it..

I ran the test exactly the way "tony2001@php.net" said to in this bug report.  If I run 'make test' the same thing happens.  I'll run it yet again the Nth way you've asked.  Here you go, fails exactly the same way:

# make test TESTS=ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt

=====================================================================
CWD         : /usr/local/src/Tars/php-4.4.0
PHP         : /usr/local/src/Tars/php-4.4.0/sapi/cli/php 
PHP_SAPI    : cli
PHP_VERSION : 4.4.0
ZEND_VERSION: 1.3.0
PHP_OS      : Linux - Linux dev.pheedo.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:52:23 EDT 2005 i686
INI actual  : /etc/php.ini
More .INIs  : /etc/php.d/mhash.ini,/etc/php.d/mysql.ini
Extra dirs  : 
=====================================================================
Running selected tests.
FAIL Bug #22414: passthru() does not read data correctly [ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt]

Here's output from the straight-forward 'make test'.  I don't know how many other bits of info I can send to convince someone that this test script doesn't work right?  It fails the same no matter which way I run it, and on three different version of PHP 4.x all on RHEL 3.0 servers.  Is there any way I can convince someone this script has a problem?

=====================================================================
TIME END 2005-08-11 19:26:29
=====================================================================
TEST RESULT SUMMARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Exts skipped    :   55
Exts tested     :   32
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of tests :  630
Tests skipped   :  137 (21.7%)
Tests warned    :    0 (0.0%)
Tests failed    :    5 (0.8%)
Tests passed    :  488 (77.5%)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Time taken      :   72 seconds
=====================================================================

=====================================================================
FAILED TEST SUMMARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
mb_send_mail() test 5 (lang=Simplified Chinese) [ext/mbstring/tests/mb_send_mail05.phpt]
mb_send_mail() test 6 (lang=Traditional Chinese) [ext/mbstring/tests/mb_send_mail06.phpt]
mb_send_mail() test 7 (lang=Korean) [ext/mbstring/tests/mb_send_mail07.phpt]
php-users@php.gr.jp #16242 [ext/mbstring/tests/php_gr_jp_16242.phpt]
Bug #22414: passthru() does not read data correctly [ext/standard/tests/file/bug22414.phpt]
=====================================================================

Yes, you can convince me if you can test if that happens with the latest PHP 5.1 snapshot..

Then I can't convince you.  PHP 4.4.0 is supposed to be the latest "supported" 4.x release, and if it doesn't work for that, that should be enough.

This test script hasn't worked from 4.3.2 through 4.4.0 on four different releases I've tried.  Unfortunately, like most working people, I don't have the time to stay on top of my regular workload already, and definitely do not have the time to download, configure and compile PHP 5.1 to see whether or not it fails there, esp. when we have no need for PHP 5.1 right now.

I'm unclear why that would even matter?  If it didn't fail for PHP 5.1 then what would be your answer other than "upgrade to 5.1, bug closed" when that's not an option right now for us?

I think I've done a 110% job of showing this test script fails under a number of PHP 4.x releases and have spent the time to show it appears to be the test script, not the actual passthru() function itself.  Guess this is why this script has been broken for so long.  So much for PHP 4.4 being an "official" release and for working towards making PHP 4.4.1 something that will build and test correctly on most systems.

At least this report will be out there for someone else to find; I've already been contacted by someone with the same problem.  I can't put any more time into this and if you guys aren't willing to have a QA person take a look at this script, oh well.  Thanks for the help, I guess and it can stay broken.  Cheers, Rob