[arp242]

> I can even get the errors that OS spits out and test for what exactly went wrong

Coolio, so how do you do this?

I spent several years full-time working with PHP. I ran in to this several times. It's not a small issue. And my entire point is I can't work around it, because as near as I can tell, it just doesn't offer me the required primitives. That was certainly the case when I last looked at this, but that was a long time ago so maybe things changed?