On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Yeah, I thought about that too.  Still not something we can do without
>> breaking binary compatibility in the 5.3 branch though and I really
>> would like to at least get all the core functions to guard themselves
>> against null-poisoning there.
>
> How adding a new option char to zend_parse_parameters breaks BC?

That's something I like to have as well. For two main reasons:

- avoid painful and repetitive path cleaning (VCWD&co)
- may save some memory ops (alloc, free, dup) while a file will not be
processed many times by each part of the engine
  - exts do a check, then stream and TSRM at the end. That's expensive
and should be removed

A possible solution would be to return a struct with a smart str ptr
for the given path, the resolved path and some custom OS specific data
(like stats info, permissions, etc.). Doing so each information about
a given path will be requested/generated only once.


Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

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