Description:
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I have Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.3 set up on a WinXP Pro laptop for testing.  Asking for the file_get_contents($file) when $file points to an empty text file causes Apache to crash.

Reproduce code:
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<?
$string = file_get_contents("path/to/empty_text_file.txt");
?>

Expected result:
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$string == ""

Actual result:
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One of those MS dialog boxes telling me Apache has experienced an error, and to report it to MS.  Also, a 404 in the page called.