From 726dfc423da8e08380d6b8252731efdf6c2e6c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaud Le Blanc <lbarnaud@php.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:54:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not expand $target in symlink(). This made it impossible
 to symlink to a symlink. This also caused the target to be wrongly expanded
 relatively to the CWD when target was not an absolute path.

---
 ext/standard/link.c                           | 10 ++---
 .../tests/file/symlink_to_symlink.phpt        | 44 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ext/standard/tests/file/symlink_to_symlink.phpt

diff --git a/ext/standard/link.c b/ext/standard/link.c
index a2517580c1..1b97a4da03 100644
--- a/ext/standard/link.c
+++ b/ext/standard/link.c
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(symlink)
 		RETURN_FALSE;
 	}
 
-#ifndef ZTS
-	ret = symlink(topath, frompath);
-#else 
-	ret = symlink(dest_p, source_p);
-#endif	
+	/* For the source, an expanded path must be used (in ZTS an other thread could have changed the CWD).
+	 * For the target the exact string given by the user must be used, relative or not, existing or not. 
+	 * The target is relative to the link itself, not to the CWD. */
+	ret = symlink(topath, source_p);
+
 	if (ret == -1) {
 		php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "%s", strerror(errno));
 		RETURN_FALSE;
diff --git a/ext/standard/tests/file/symlink_to_symlink.phpt b/ext/standard/tests/file/symlink_to_symlink.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf12a1d0b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/standard/tests/file/symlink_to_symlink.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+--TEST--
+symlink() using a relative path, and symlink() to a symlink
+--FILE--
+<?php
+$prefix = __FILE__;
+
+touch($prefix . "_file");
+
+// symlink to a regular file using a relative dest
+symlink(basename($prefix . "_file"), $prefix . "_link1");
+
+// symlink to a symlink using a relative path
+symlink(basename($prefix . "_link1"), $prefix . "_link2");
+
+// symlink to a non-existent path
+@unlink($prefix . "_nonexistant");
+symlink(basename($prefix . "_nonexistant"), $prefix . "_link3");
+
+// symlink to a regular file using an absolute path
+symlink($prefix . "_file", $prefix . "_link4");
+
+// symlink to a symlink using an absolute path
+symlink($prefix . "_link4", $prefix . "_link5");
+
+var_dump(readlink($prefix . "_link1"));
+var_dump(readlink($prefix . "_link2"));
+var_dump(readlink($prefix . "_link3"));
+var_dump(readlink($prefix . "_link4"));
+var_dump(readlink($prefix . "_link5"));
+
+unlink($prefix . "_link5");
+unlink($prefix . "_link4");
+unlink($prefix . "_link3");
+unlink($prefix . "_link2");
+unlink($prefix . "_link1");
+unlink($prefix . "_file");
+
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+%unicode|string%(%d) "symlink_to_symlink.php_file"
+%unicode|string%(%d) "symlink_to_symlink.php_link1"
+%unicode|string%(%d) "symlink_to_symlink.php_nonexistant"
+%unicode|string%(%d) "%s/symlink_to_symlink.php_file"
+%unicode|string%(%d) "%s/symlink_to_symlink.php_link4"
-- 
2.50.1