[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39766: Plugin does not gracefully fail when editing active plugin causes fatal error

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#39766: Plugin does not gracefully fail when editing active plugin causes fatal
error
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 Reporter:  ovann86       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins       |     Version:  4.7.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by ovann86):

 I'm seeing the issue until 7.0.15 and 7.0.13, both Apache but different
 hosts (the later being a clean VPN install).

 I did a little research and saw that PHP 7 introduced different error
 handling for included files with parse errors, but that wouldn't explain
 why it works for you with 7.0.15.

 Under my test environment I was able to see that the activate_plugin
 function continued to run after the include_once() (with parse error)
 rather than stop and redirect to the previously set header location.

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