[phpMyAdmin Developers] Path delimiters

[Isaac Bennetch]

On 1/27/16 3:30 PM, wowaname wrote:
> On 16 01 27 15 53, Michal Čihař wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Dne 26.1.2016 v 09:30 wowaname napsal(a):
>>>> I personally don't use PMA but encountered a user on my system who had
>>>> an issue running it because of the php_uname statement in
>>>> <./libraries/php-gettext/gettext.inc>. This could be much better taken
>>>> care of with the PATH_SEPARATOR constant and it will work with PHP
>>>> versions 4.3 and above.
>> This is third party library which we try to modify as little as
>> possible. What kind of issue did you have with php_uname?
>
> I provide shared hosting and have blocked php_uname among other
> functions for security reasons. I'll contact the library developer about
> this code if need be. Not only is php_uname a less secure option than
> PATH_SEPARATOR, but it could also be unreliable in weird operating
> system cases.
>