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Bug #32234 Is a simbolic link a regular file?
Submitted: 2005-03-08 17:35 UTC Modified: 2005-03-08 18:02 UTC
From: adrian at autopublish dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 4.3.10 OS: Fedora Core 3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-03-08 17:35 UTC] adrian at autopublish dot com 
Description:
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The is_file() documentation page says:

  is_file -- Tells whether the filename is a regular file

If I pass a simbolic link to a file as parameter, the function returns true. So my question is: Is a simbolic link a regular file? I think it is not, so the result maybe a bug.


Extra info: The filetype() function returns "link".

Reproduce code:
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Linux command line:

touch file
ln -s file link
echo '<? if (is_file("link")) echo "y\n"; ?>' | php -q

Expected result:
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Nothing should be printed after last command.

Actual result:
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"y" is printed, so the function is returning true.

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 [2005-03-08 17:36 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

is_file and is_dir will resolve symlinks.
 [2005-03-08 18:02 UTC] adrian at autopublish dot com 
Thanks.

I've posted a note to the is_file doc page:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-file.php
(will take some minutes to appear in all mirrors)
 
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