PHP 8.4.17 RC 1: Test finfo_buffer() function : basic functionality

[ArchMaster2024]

Description

The following code:

$magicFile = __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'magic私はガラスを食べられます';

$options = array(
    FILEINFO_NONE,
    FILEINFO_MIME,
);

$buffers = array(
    "Regular string here",
    "\177ELF",
    "\000\000\0001\000\000\0000\000\000\0000\000\000\0002\000\000\0000\000\000\0000\000\000\0003",
    "\x55\x7A\x6E\x61",
    "id=ImageMagick\x0a\x0c\x0a:\x1a",
    "RIFFüîò^BAVI LISTv",
);

echo "*** Testing finfo_buffer() : basic functionality ***\n";

foreach( $options as $option ) {
    $finfo = finfo_open( $option, $magicFile );
    foreach( $buffers as $string ) {
        var_dump( finfo_buffer( $finfo, $string, $option ) );
    }
    finfo_close( $finfo );
}

<?php

Resulted in this output:

*** Testing finfo_buffer() : basic functionality ***

Warning: finfo_open(/test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic私はガラスを食べられます): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php on line 21

Warning: finfo_open(/test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic私はガラスを食べられます): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php on line 21

Warning: finfo_open(): Failed to load magic database at "/test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic私はガラスを食べられます" in /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php on line 21

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: finfo_buffer(): Argument #1 ($finfo) must be of type finfo, false given in /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php:23
Stack trace:
#0 /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php(23): finfo_buffer(false, 'Regular string ...', 0)
#1 {main}
  thrown in /test_php/source/php/ext/fileinfo/tests/finfo_buffer_basic-mb.php on line 23

But I expected this output instead:

*** Testing finfo_buffer() : basic functionality ***
string(36) "ASCII text, with no line terminators"
string(3) "ELF"
string(22) "old ACE/gr binary file"
string(12) "xo65 object,"
string(15) "MIFF image data"
string(25) "RIFF (little-endian) data"
string(28) "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
string(26) "text/plain; charset=ebcdic"
string(40) "application/octet-stream; charset=binary"
string(28) "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
string(28) "image/x-miff; charset=binary"
string(25) "text/plain; charset=utf-8"

PHP Version

PHP 8.4.17RC1 (cli) (built: Jan 25 2026 21:1817) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.4.17RC1, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

Operating System

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64 (container run with podman)

[ndossche]

The code is using relative paths obtained from the test directory. If you put this reproducer in ext/fileinfo/tests then it gives the right output.

[ArchMaster2024]

Thanks for clarify this, I didn't know that.