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Bug #77168 chgrp returns true but doesn't immediately change the group
Submitted: 2018-11-17 14:19 UTC Modified: 2018-11-17 19:03 UTC
From: rkaiser at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: POSIX related
PHP Version: 7.0.32 OS: CentOS 7
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-11-17 14:19 UTC] rkaiser at gmail dot com
Description:
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Note: I only have PHP 7.0.5 CLI to test, not 7.0.32

Even though chgrp($file, $user) returns true, if you immediately check the permissions via posix_getgrgid(filegroup($file)) nothing has changed.  

Re-running the script immediately shows the group has changed.  So maybe there is a time lag or file lock involved.

Seems that chown() behaves normally.



Test script:
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- log in as root
- make sure you have an "apache" user, or any other user works too
- echo "stuff" > my.log
- run the following

<?php

$logpath = "./my.log";

$owner = posix_getpwuid(fileowner($logpath));
$group = posix_getgrgid(filegroup($logpath));

if ($owner['name'] != 'apache' || $group['name'] != 'apache')
{
		// Attempt to fix the perms
		if (!chown($logpath, "apache"))
				throw new exception("Cannot change owner of %s to apache", $logpath);
		if (!chgrp($logpath, "apache"))
				throw new exception("Cannot change group of %s to apache", $logpath);

		// Even though chgrp() returned true, the permissions might not have actually changed.  Or else posix_getgrgid(filegroup($logpath)) is incorrect.
		$owner = posix_getpwuid(fileowner($logpath));
                
		$group = posix_getgrgid(filegroup($logpath));
		if ($owner['name'] != 'apache' || $group['name'] != 'apache')
				throw new exception(sprintf("Wrong permissions on %s - user:group is %s:%s.  Try re-running.\n", $logpath, $owner['name'], $group['name']));
}

Expected result:
----------------
The call to posix_getgrgid(filegroup($logpath)) would reflect the group change that was just made.

Actual result:
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It doesn't reflect the group change that was made.  Re-running the script works fine.

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 [2018-11-17 14:25 UTC] spam2 at rhsoft dot net
posix_* are system calls and PHP is hardly repsonsilble what the underlying OS gives back - sounds more like some caching in glibc
 [2018-11-17 18:22 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2018-11-17 18:22 UTC] requinix@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

fileowner() and filegroup() are subject to PHP's stat cache. See clearstatcache().
 [2018-11-17 19:03 UTC] rkaiser at gmail dot com
Sorry about that, somehow I missed clearstatcache(). That did the trick.
 
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