On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 17:45, Paul Crovella <paul.crove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:25 AM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 01.12.2020 at 18:18, Aimeos | Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
> >
> > > PHP 8 is stricter in checking input data then PHP 7. This is good but
> > > has some side effects for is_file(), is_dir() and similar functions
> when
> > > invalid paths are passed for checking.
> > >
> > > In PHP 7, this returns FALSE:
> > >
> > > php -r 'var_dump(is_file("ab\0c"));'
> > >
> > > In PHP 8, the same code throws a ValueException. Problem is now that
> > > it's not possible to check upfront if the passed argument is a valid
> > > path to avoid the exception being thrown.
> >
> > This is only about the NUL byte in the filename. You can easily check
> > for that yourself. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christoph
>
> Or is_file could check for it, handle it gracefully, and be a safe
> function to call without worrying about this undocumented edge case.
>
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