On lots of filesystem-functions you get the well known warning
stat failed on xyz (errno 2- no such file..) etc.
It occurs with non-existent files and remote-url in general.

I know, that we can turn this of (errorreporting=0) but if you look at google (just type in stat failed php) you get 
HUNDREDS of them, so whats going on ther, he?

Furthermore, this mysterious stat seems to leed to an performance loss. 
I detected this on my web page, where i use a heavy cms-like script, and my sysmin changed (without notice, like they always do) from 4.0.6 to 4.3.1
The same page, that ran prior in 0.8 secs now took up to 3-4 secs. The serverload did NOT increase meanwhile!

I reproduced a similar behavior on my development system at home, where the performance loss was less, but clearly visible (about 10-20% exec.time)

So it seems, this does not depend on System, Config or so on (we talk about two VERY different environments - the one is freebsd, the other win98) 


Whats going on with this behaviour???

thx

mir