The problem is that you're trying to use PHP as if it's a different language.
If I have to deal with files, I'll create a class and I'll combine functions file_exists, is_file, is_writable, file_get_contents, file_put_contents (and new fsync) in conjunction with stream_context_create. I can even get the errors that OS spits out and test for what exactly went wrong, but you obviously ignored that and gave up. I can tell you used the language sporadically, not professionally.
You're taking a small, localized issue that arose, while your job as programmer is to get around idiosyncrasies in programming languages with the focus on achieving the end goal.
I've a list of terrible things that PHP does but I have one for JS/TypeScript/Go/Rust/<you name it>.
My job is to know these and achieve goals, not to criticize languages because file handling in it is not the same as in C++ and language didn't fire up 50 AWS instances to spam X.com with messages in hopes that I somehow notice them.
If I have to deal with files, I'll create a class and I'll combine functions file_exists, is_file, is_writable, file_get_contents, file_put_contents (and new fsync) in conjunction with stream_context_create. I can even get the errors that OS spits out and test for what exactly went wrong, but you obviously ignored that and gave up. I can tell you used the language sporadically, not professionally.
You're taking a small, localized issue that arose, while your job as programmer is to get around idiosyncrasies in programming languages with the focus on achieving the end goal.
I've a list of terrible things that PHP does but I have one for JS/TypeScript/Go/Rust/<you name it>.
My job is to know these and achieve goals, not to criticize languages because file handling in it is not the same as in C++ and language didn't fire up 50 AWS instances to spam X.com with messages in hopes that I somehow notice them.