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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] File-Paths exceeding MAX_PATH on Windows
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

> is this about allowing the user to shot him/herself in the foot, or adding
> this feature could potentially break some existing functionality (eg. new
> trick to bypass open_basedir, etc.)?

All of them, as the paths are passed right to the kernel APIs, without
any system checks like in the higher level APIs (posix or win32).

>> A better solution I work on for previous php version (incl. 5.5 as I
>> won't make it in time) is an extension which would override existing
>> functions. Next major version (6) will support unicode filenames,
>> which will solve the 255 chars horrible limitation.
>
>
> by 6.0 you mean php next after 5.5, or adding this to the core would require
> a major version for some reason?

I mean 6 as the changes are rather big. It could be possible in 5.6
but I rather prefer to target the next major.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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