This patch removes the so called local variables defined per
file basis for certain editors to properly show tab width, and
similar settings. These are mainly used by Vim and Emacs editors
yet with recent changes the once working definitions don't work
anymore in Vim without custom plugins or additional configuration.
Neither are these settings synced across the PHP code base.
A simpler and better approach is EditorConfig and fixing code
using some code style fixing tools in the future instead.
This patch also removes the so called modelines for Vim. Modelines
allow Vim editor specifically to set some editor configuration such as
syntax highlighting, indentation style and tab width to be set in the
first line or the last 5 lines per file basis. Since the php test
files have syntax highlighting already set in most editors properly and
EditorConfig takes care of the indentation settings, this patch removes
these as well for the Vim 6.0 and newer versions.
With the removal of local variables for certain editors such as
Emacs and Vim, the footer is also probably not needed anymore when
creating extensions using ext_skel.php script.
Additionally, Vim modelines for setting php syntax and some editor
settings has been removed from some *.phpt files. All these are
mostly not relevant for phpt files neither work properly in the
middle of the file.
This patch adds missing newlines, trims multiple redundant final
newlines into a single one, and trims redundant leading newlines.
According to POSIX, a line is a sequence of zero or more non-' <newline>'
characters plus a terminating '<newline>' character. [1] Files should
normally have at least one final newline character.
C89 [2] and later standards [3] mention a final newline:
"A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character,
which shall not be immediately preceded by a backslash character."
Although it is not mandatory for all files to have a final newline
fixed, a more consistent and homogeneous approach brings less of commit
differences issues and a better development experience in certain text
editors and IDEs.
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_206
[2] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#2.1.1.2
[3] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html#5.1.1.2
The $Id$ keywords were used in Subversion where they can be substituted
with filename, last revision number change, last changed date, and last
user who changed it.
In Git this functionality is different and can be done with Git attribute
ident. These need to be defined manually for each file in the
.gitattributes file and are afterwards replaced with 40-character
hexadecimal blob object name which is based only on the particular file
contents.
This patch simplifies handling of $Id$ keywords by removing them since
they are not used anymore.
This reverts commit c3717d9aec.
The final mitigation of the consequences with spectre should be
discussed more also with the regard to the happenings on the
developments. Right now a preliminary mitigation might be wrong or
suboptimal, thus reverting this.
The recently discovered security flaw Spectre requires a high resolution
timer. To the today's knowledge, PHP can't be used to create an attack for
this flaw. Still some concerns were raised, that there might be impact in
shared hosting environments. This patch adds a possibility to reduce the
timer resolution by an ini setting, thus giving administrators full
control. Especially, as the flaw was also demonstrated by an abuse of
the JS engine in a browser, Firefox reduced several time sources to 20us.
Any programming language, that doesn't compile to JIT, won't be able to
produce an attack vector for Meltdown and Spectre, at least by todays
knowledge. There are also other factors that say that the security
concern on the hrtime feature is to the big part not justified, still we
aim JIT in the future. Thus, adding a possibility to control the timer
resolution is a good and small enough tradeoff for safety and future.
