The main problem with PHP 5 was never the lack of features, but things like "there is no way I can get an error code from fopen()", and things like that. Can I now get EEXISTS and such out of fopen()? Looking at the docs it still just returns false and emits an uncatchable E_WARNING that can't be examined programmatically.
Having to write a bit more code because it doesn't have some feature is not ideal, but whatever. Not able to correctly race-free implement file access is a much bigger issue. I have some other gripes (which may or may not be fixed), but this was and remains my main one.
Having to write a bit more code because it doesn't have some feature is not ideal, but whatever. Not able to correctly race-free implement file access is a much bigger issue. I have some other gripes (which may or may not be fixed), but this was and remains my main one.