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Cc: Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>,
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:52:37 +0800
To: Nicolai Scheer <nicolai.scheer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stream_get_line behaviour Bug #63240
From: tjerk.meesters@gmail.com (Tjerk Meesters)



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On 10 Oct, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Nicolai Scheer <nicolai.scheer@gmail.com> wrote=
:

> Hi again!
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> Thanks for your help an comments on the issue.
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> cataphract commented on the stream_get_line behaviour (returning false
> when used on an empty file) on the bug report page.
> I do agree that reading on an empty file can be considered an error
> thus returning false, because there's nothing to read.
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> Unfortunately, and that's why we stumbled upon this in the first
> place, feof does not return true when opening an empty file.
> I did not have a look at the internals, but my guess is that feof just
> does not return true because no one did a read on the file handle yet.
> To my mind if would be sensible to return true using feof on an empty
> file, so that one does not actually try a read...

That wouldn't be right. Technically the EOF should be discovered, not deduce=
d from other information like stat(). Also, some streams don't support repor=
ting an appropriate size.=20

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> What do you think?
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> Greetings
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> Nico
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