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Bug #25880 file_exists() strange behaviour
Submitted: 2003-10-15 09:22 UTC Modified: 2003-10-16 00:52 UTC
From: mpilipenko at ukr dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions
PHP Version: 4.3.3 OS: Windows 2000 Pro +SP4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-10-15 09:22 UTC] mpilipenko at ukr dot net 
Description:
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Function file_exists() returns TRUE on non-existing files.
Tested on Windows 2000 Pro +SP4, Apache 1.3.27 & PHP 4.3.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.4RC1

Reproduce code:
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<?
var_dump(file_exists("con"));
var_dump(file_exists("con.[anything_you_want]"));
?>

Expected result:
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false
false

Actual result:
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true
true

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 [2003-10-16 00:52 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Actually, not 'fixed'. "con" is special file in Windows (since DOS, iirc..)

It would be strange if it didn't exist.
 
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