On Feb 6, 2:26*pm, Arancaytar <arancaytar.ilya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> open_basedir exhibits very annoying (and imho buggy) behavior in
> generating warnings even when is_readable() is called, rather than
> just returning false as appropriate. This means it is impossible to
> use is_readable as a precondition before opening a file.
>
> Is there any way to check the preconditions of reading a file without
> generating warnings for files outside open_basedir?

Addendum: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37476 describes this behavior.