Hi simon:
  I don't get it. does it look like this? 

./testscript.php
./path
    /a.json   <---- a.json or any *.json ?
        file
cat testscript.php
<?php
$filename = "path/.json";
var_dump(is_file($filename)); ===> bool(true)

Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce
this bug ourselves. 

A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>,
is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external 
resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a 
database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates 
all necessary tables, stored procedures etc.

Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.

I also can't reproduce this. This script:

<?php
mkdir('foo');
touch('foo/a.test');
var_dump(is_file('foo/.test'));
touch('foo/.test');
var_dump(is_file('foo/.test'));

unlink('foo/a.test');
unlink('foo/.test');
rmdir('foo');
?>

Outputs bool(false) and bool(true), which is what I'd expect.

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