Hi, On Tuesday 09 September 2008 17:35:54 Christian Schneider wrote: > Arnaud Le Blanc wrote: > > The following may (no MacOS X to test) fix the problem by returning 0 from > > zend_stream_fsize() when the file descriptor is not a regular file: > > http://arnaud.lb.s3.amazonaws.com/45928.patch > > Your patch: > +#ifdef S_ISREG > + if (!S_ISREG(buf.st_mode)) { > + return 0; > + } > +#endif > might prevent mmap-ing symbolically linked files, I'll do a quick test > when I'm at home.
No, fstat() will resolve the link and stat the file the link points to. And I believe script paths are fully resolved before being opened. Anyway, given the fstat() Linux man page, its a bug to return st_size when the file is not a regular file. > Not sure if we should also check for symbolic links (and what they point > to) or if that's overkill because the performance penalty is small > enough anyway. > > Anyone from the core developers got an opinion here? > > - Chris > Regards, Arnaud -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
