ID: 49478 Comment by: ian at iglou dot com Reported By: elmue at gmx dot de Status: Open Bug Type: Program Execution Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 6SVN-2009-09-06 (snap) New Comment:
Also broken in PHP Version 5.2.10; safe mode off. An earlier version (no record of which) did work when used thus to get a Windows dvd volume label: if (preg_match('#Volume in drive [a-zA-Z]* is (.*)\n#i', shell_exec('dir '.$drive.':'), $m)) { $volname = ' ('.$m[1].')'; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-06 00:49:59] elmue at gmx dot de Description: ------------ On PHP 6 VC 6 from 3.sept.2009 the shell_exec command is broken. Tested on Xampp on Windows XP with Apache 2.2.9. Whatever you put into shell_exec e.g. shell_exec("dir C:\\") produces a Warning shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'dir c:\' The same script works fine on PHP 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49478&edit=1