Cannot upgrade – WP wants FTP access

Ah. Right. I must say, I’m little little dissapointed with WP’s “logic” to determine whether a file is writable.

It seems that when it finally has managed to create and write to a file, it still isn’t satisfied and goes all out:
if ( getmyuid() == @fileowner($temp_file_name) )
To check whether the current user is the file’s owner. This cannot happen in my setup. The file’s owner is not the current user, even if that user created the file. WP should not expect this to always happen and fail if it doesn’t.

In my setup, any file, no matter which user creates it, will get the owner the same as the owner of the webroot directory. The assigned group is “www” (which includes “www-data”: apache’s user). This works like a charm and does not pollute the file ownership all over the place.

Now, why does WP need to do this silly additional check, if it has already confirmed it can write to a created file??

No response, you are taking it easy.

Look, I’m reporting a problem here. If you don’t want to get it fixed, that’s your problem, not mine. But being a little bit grateful for the effort I took to report everything and even pointing out a possible solution, doesn’t kill you.

But instead, I’m whining.

You want this to be the very last bugreport from my end?

I would suggest that’s the task of a developer. Asking me to do double work is another superfluous task. Yes, WP is free, but my time is certainly not worthless.

I’ve put it in Trac for now, but next time I will do either, not both. That’s just silly.

I don’t expect any core developers here frequently. But moderators ever more so (hey there). Just saying.

Just don’t be impolite about it (not you, esmi). I don’t see where I insulted anyone directly before my comments were calling “whining”. I may be “just a user”, but being treated like that is uncalled for even if I was a little frustrated at the time.