[BlueOnyx:03123] Re: php error

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Stephanie Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:00 PM
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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:03121] Re: php error
> 
> Darrell, Darrell, Darrell, :-)
> 
> >From php.net:
> **************
> safe_mode_gid boolean
> By default, Safe Mode does a UID compare check when opening files. If you
> want to relax this to a GID compare, then turn on safe_mode_gid. Whether
> to use UID (FALSE) or GID (TRUE) checking upon file access.
> **************

I understand the admonition, really I do.  But when I say it is confusing, I
mean that if the entry at PHP.net had said:

"In order to have safe_mode_gid operate correctly, safe_mode must be set to
'On' as well as safe_mode_gid."

That would have removed the ambiguity.  

As it is, myself as well as others have concluded, whether incorrectly or
not, that if you want to relax safe_mode to a GID compare, then enable
safe_mode_gid instead.  Otherwise, there would be no references on Google
that show where people have safe_mode disabled and safe_mode_gid enabled.

But, I suspect no one at PHP.net cares, since they have deemed Safe Mode a
joke and have deprecated it.