From 3be1f24fbabd17997365cd70ea578e2ad1278ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Joye <pajoye@php.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:15:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Fixed bug #55187, readlink returns weird characters when
 false result

---
 NEWS                      | 3 +++
 ext/standard/link_win32.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 97c4031d59..45d2d4c434 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
     though the class has none). (Felipe)
 
 - Core
+  . Fixed bug #55187 (readlink returns weird characters when false result).
+   (Pierre)
   . Fixed bug #55014 (Compile failure due to improper use of ctime_r()). (Ilia)
   . Fixed bug #54332 (Crash in zend_mm_check_ptr // Heap corruption). (Dmitry)
   . Fixed bug #54305 (Crash in gc_remove_zval_from_buffer). (Dmitry)
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #52935 (call exit in user_error_handler cause stream relate
     core). (Gustavo)
 
+
 - MCrypt
   . Change E_ERROR to E_WARNING in mcrypt_create_iv when not enough data
     has been fetched (Windows). (Pierre)
diff --git a/ext/standard/link_win32.c b/ext/standard/link_win32.c
index 84a0235381..42e168a65c 100644
--- a/ext/standard/link_win32.c
+++ b/ext/standard/link_win32.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(readlink)
 
 	if (php_sys_readlink(link, target, MAXPATHLEN) == -1) {
 		php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "readlink failed to read the symbolic link (%s), error %d)", link, GetLastError());
+		RETURN_FALSE;
 	}
 	RETURN_STRING(target, 1);
 }
-- 
2.40.0