Hi, On Aug 4, 2015 7:23 PM, "Nicolas Grekas" <nicolas.grekas+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I reported this bug one year ago (https://bugs.php.net/67220) and it is now > closed as "not a bug". I'd like this to be reconsidered. > > The documentation of realpath() says: > > > realpath() expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', > > '/../' and extra '/' characters in the input path ***and returns the > > canonicalized absolute pathname***. > > > > the last part of this description is IMO what qualifies this behavior on > MacOSX as a bug. > > I'm asking for this now because I spend many hours on Syfony trying to find > an efficient workaround, and this is far from easy. Here is the fastest we > found (it's a mix of scandir()+getcwd()+caching): > https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/15443 > > If realpath were behaving on OSX the same as it does on Windows (and Linux), > I could remove 60 lines of wtf lines. > > Do anyone else agree?
I think it could be fixed but can be tricky. For windows, there is no path normalization either btw. It would makes realpath more expensive. Also as far as I remember the case sensitivity on osx (for hfs) can be enabled optionally, or? Cheers, Pierre > Regards, > Nicolas
