Hey Mike,

I wanted to write a test case but I fail to reproduce this on 5.3.2 so far.

E.g., I wrapped your code into a phpt, all I get is:

Warning: copy(): The second argument to copy() function cannot be a directory in 
/home/till/test/bug53328.php on line 60
bool(false)

[ On a sidenote, I don't get this error message either. 'foo' is not a 
directory, but maybe this means that we have to implement more in the example 
wrapper for it to work, or this is another bug in the streamwrapper?]

Anyway, aside from the weird error message it seems to work indeed on 5.3.2.

Here is your code wrapped in a phpt:
http://friendpaste.com/7Id22SbWNEBnwLhi9FnSTu

Execute with: pear run-tests bug53328.phpt

Till, thanks for making the phpt file. I tested using the phpt and the raw PHP 
file, and both fail as described in the original bug report. This is using php 
5.3.3 as provided by Ubuntu.

I don't see the directory error you describe.

The function you should be testing would be fflush, not copy. fflush does actually return false.

The flush operation is called for collaterals when closing the file. copy() should probably return false if closing, at least, the destination file fails, but it's a risky move because in PHP, for better or worse, the return value of php_stream_close and friends is almost always ignored. We'd be giving significance to something that's almost always ignored.

Maybe for trunk...

fflush does correctly return false, but the point of stream wrappers is to be 
able to use the stream functions as I normally would. I normally use copy to 
copy a stream rather than an fopen, fread, fwrite, fflush, fclose loop.

Because of this bug, there's no way to properly detect errors when copying to 
custom streams. In practice, this results in data loss.

I'm fine with the fix going in trunk as afaik php 5.2.x is reaching end of life 
and this is not a security issue.

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

The php-src internal copy() function discards the flush operation, even using its 
native wrappers.

If you consider it an issue, you should enforce flushing in your wrapper 
yourself.