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Bug #47157 require_once('relative/path/some.file') includes file twice (symlinks involved)
Submitted: 2009-01-19 23:06 UTC Modified: 2009-01-22 13:50 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: stephanie4343 at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Open Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.2.8 OS: FreeBSD 7.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-01-19 23:06 UTC] stephanie4343 at yahoo dot com 
Description:
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What does the require_once function use to determine if a file has already been included or not?

Could mounting a filesystem with noatime affect it ? 
or serving it over NFS (with noatime) ?

p.s. the file I'm including is only in 1 directory

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 [2009-01-20 02:55 UTC] stephanie4343 at yahoo dot com 
Hi, Thanks for the reply

Is there a way to print the internal array that require_once is using so I can diagnose this in the production environment ?
 [2009-01-20 12:33 UTC] jani@php.net 
I asked for sample script because I'm guessing you propably used relative path instead of absolute. And hence could have issues with symlinks and such. So please give a short script that clearly demonstrates the problem.
 [2009-01-22 04:31 UTC] stephanie4343 at yahoo dot com 
/home is a symlink to /usr/home as usual

the code is in /home/phonecode

you are right about the relative paths being used in the require_once calls.

once I changed the include_path to begin with /usr/home/phonecode rather than /home/phonecode it was resolved

but I'm dying for an answer as to why ?  
it still doesn't make sense to me as to why it would include it twice, or believe it hasn't inculded it the first time
 [2009-01-22 13:48 UTC] jani@php.net 
IIRC, there is some issue with realpath() and *BSD. As in: It does not work. Just don't use relative paths. Ever.
 
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