Hello, using apache 1.3.26, I have safe mode on

I have a simple single-line script: safemode.php

<?print_r($fp = fopen('newsletter.html', 'r'));?>

safemode is owned by wbr:wbr and newsletter.html is owned
by root:root as you can see

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        22161 Sep 12 00:17 newsletter.html
-rw-r--r--    1 wbr      wbr            43 Sep 12 01:24 safemode.php

safemode.php execution simply return 'Resource id #1' without errors related to safe mode, even if the owner of the files is not the same

If I change the owner of safemode.php
$ chown nobody:nobody safemode.php
and reload safemode.php I get the expected warning:

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 99 is not allowed to access newsletter.html owned by uid 

If I change the user back to wbr:wbr --> No warning

Helpful info:

$ cat /etc/passwd |grep wbr
wbr:x:501:501::/www/wbr:/bin/bash

$ cat /usr/local/lib/php.ini |grep safe_mode |grep -v "^;"
safe_mode = On
safe_mode_gid = Off
safe_mode_include_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php"
safe_mode_exec_dir =
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars = LD_LIBRARY_PATH
sql.safe_mode = Off

Hope can help
Thanks a lot

Edoardo Serra