I suggest to add a new configuration directive for safe mode to solve the common problem, that a user can't change uploaded files because they have the UID of the user owning the webserver process and not the UID of the user owning the script.
I know that I could turn safe_mode off and use only open_basedir instead. Another 'solution' sould be to use safe_mode_gid and put the webserver-user in the same group as the script-owners. But I don't want to do this.
Thus my suggestion to add a new directive that could for example be called 'safe_mode_allow_proc_uid'. If this is set to TRUE then PHP should allow the access to files which are owned by the user that owns the script (as it does now) _OR_ files which are owned by the user that owns the webserver process.

In other words: Try to implement the patch at http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200201/msg01149.html with the option to enable or disable it.


Thanks for listening.
Marco