Windows fixes release for Zip, fopen(,"rb") may not be binary safe

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:45:00 +0100

This release is mostly for windows users using other SAPI than CLI or (F)CGI. The bug is fixed in CVS already but I was lacking the time to release it. Pecl4win providing snapshots, it is half of a problem

The issue is actually a windows bug. No matter if I give or not the "b" flag to fopen, the write operations are not binary safe. It seems to be a known issue as many projects use the same trick:

 _setmode(_fileno(tfp), _O_BINARY );

PHP is forcing the binary mode in SAPI and CLI, that’s why the problem was not that easy to reproduce (apache or IIS debuggin on windows was not really my cup of tea .

I was trying to find some reference or bug reports about this issue but without much success, so far only people complaining about windows broken fopen. If anyone has detailed informations about this issue, please let me know.

As always you can fetch the DLLs from pecl4win or PECL.

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Zip 1.7.1 or how to make apache2 users happier

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:29:33 +0200

Zip 1.7.1 has been released today, it fixes a little but annoying issue with relative paths in threaded environment (like in some apache2 or IIS sapi). As a work around one has had to pass absolute path to the open and addFile methods. This problem is now solved, the real path is processed internally.

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Windows fixes release for Zip, fopen(,"rb") may not be binary safe

Zip 1.7.1 or how to make apache2 users happier