ID: 23769
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: patric at liefdeis dot com
-Status: Assigned
+Status: Analyzed
Bug Type: Filesystem function related
Operating System: FreeBSD
PHP Version: 4.3.2
Assigned To: hholzgra
New Comment:
so what you actualy get is a boolean FALSE instead
of an empty array() ...
(you can see this if you change the print_r() call
in your test code to var_dump(), which is more verbose)
you can work around this by testing the result with
empty(), which returns TRUE for both empty arrays
and boolean FALSE values (amongst others) instad
of count(), which returns 1 if applied to any variable
that is not an array
any volunteer who can give me access to a FreeBSD 4.3
system to identify which of the code pathes returning
FALSE it actualy runs into here so that we can
hopefully fix this and get more consistent behaviour?
Previous Comments:
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[2003-05-31 05:02:27] patric at liefdeis dot com
Okay, I found the problem. Here is an example code:
<?
echo "a";
$f = glob("*.nothing");
print_r($f);
if (is_array($f)) {
echo "c";
}
echo count($f)."b";
?>
When I look at this, I expect to get: 'a0b'. But I do get: 'a1b' on my
FreeBSD 4.3 machine. On my Windows XP machine I get:
'aArray ( ) c0b'
That seems more okay. Also under Linux 2.4.18-3 and FreeBSD 4.8 it
gives that same result. So I guess it is a typical FreeBSD 4.3 problem.
Is it possible to fix this? Tnx anyway!
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[2003-05-28 06:10:05] patric at liefdeis dot com
I can't reproduce the bug in a simple form, nor can I upgrade the
FreeBSD machine to a CVS version, so we will wait till the next
official PHP version, then I will check again if the problem still
exists.
What I did notice was, that with PHP 4.3.1, Linux gives an empty array
back, where FreeBSD gives nothing back.
(print_r(glob("*.doesnotexist"));) Anyway, I will check back in after
the next release.
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[2003-05-23 09:49:02] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please try using this CVS snapshot:
http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
For Windows:
http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip
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[2003-05-23 04:11:13] patric at liefdeis dot com
When I do a glob() on my Linux machine with a pattern that doesn't have
any hits, I receive an array with 0 entries. This is not the problem.
When I do the same on my FreeBSD machine, I get 1 entry which is empty.
This is a problem. The FreeBSD machine does run a CVS version of 4.3.0,
where the Linux machine is running the 4.3.0 release version. I don't
know if that has anything to do with it, or that the problem is OS
based. Anywayz, tnx for looking in to it.
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