Description:
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I used:
- php 5.5.26 ts 32bit VC11 as SAPI
- apache 2.4.12 32bit VC11
- windows 7 sp1
On Windows 7 (have only tested it on Windows 7) the file_get_contents function does sometimes return false instead of returning the actual file content when used on symlinks. This happens only in conjunction with Apache. The cli versions are not affected. All types of links are affected:
- mklink
- mklink /J
- mklink /D

To repoduce the bug create the three symlink types above to a file of your choice containing the string "asdf" and apply the paths to your the test script below and use the abs.exe command (shipped with apache) to simulate 800 request with a concurency of 200 users:
abs.exe -n 800 -c 200 http://localhost/yourTestScript.php

If needed I can provide a fully virtual machine with the whole reproducable scenario in it (virtual box).

Test script:
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$files =
[
	"file" => "C:/Development/phpdir/phpfile.txt",
	"filelink" => "C:/Development/phpdir/phpfilelink.txt",
	"dirlink" => "C:/Development/phpdirlink/phpfile.txt",
	"dirjunc" => "C:/Development/phpdirjunc/phpfile.txt",
];

foreach($files as $linkType => $filePath) {
	if( @file_get_contents($filePath) !== "asdf" ) {
		if( @file_get_contents("C:/Development/$linkType") === false )
			file_put_contents("C:/Development/$linkType", 0);
		file_put_contents("C:/Development/$linkType", ((int)file_get_contents("C:/Development/$linkType"))+1);
	}
}

Expected result:
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No files should appear in the directory "C:/Development/".

Actual result:
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There are laying three files namely 'filelink', 'dirlink' and 'dirjunc' containing the number of file_get_contents failing to succeed.