On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 17:46, G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Apologize my email client sent by mistake:
But this has always generated a warning see:
https://3v4l.org/7E2mv
So this is not new behaviour.
George P. Banyard
>
