[pLog-svn] about isWritable()

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Thu Apr 6 20:10:49 GMT 2006


 	Last time.

Maybe this function will help us:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php

Though we would need to know our own userid, and gid, to know whether we 
have access.



On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jon Daley wrote:

> 	More hrm:
>
> Note: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.
>
> Sensitive data can be retrieved with the POSIX functions, e.g. 
> posix_getpwnam() and friends. None of the POSIX function perform any kind of 
> access checking when safe mode is enabled. It's therefore strongly advised to 
> disable the POSIX extension at all (use --disable-posix in your configure 
> line) if you're operating in such an environment.
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.posix.php


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