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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] realpath() on MacOSX doesn't normalize the case of characters
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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Hi,

On Aug 4, 2015 7:23 PM, "Nicolas Grekas" <nicolas.grekas+php@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

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