phpthumb is falling when /home directory is protected

[sashabeep]

My hoster offers site isolation functionality when no one site knows about root level directory and cannot access to it. But after this feature enabled this function

phpThumb/phpthumb.class.php

Line 1165 in 4bb058e

for ($i = 0, $iMax = count($segments); $i < $iMax; $i++) {

throws warning

Error : is_link(): IHC isolation in effect. File(/home) is not within the allowed path(s)
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if (is_link($thispart)) { 

Can you point me to solution? Maybe some settings in php.ini will fix this problem?
As i can understand, this function verifies that some of path parts are not symlink.
Can i rewrite it somehow? I'm not use symlinks at all on shared hostings. Commenting the whole cycle makes phpthumb unuseable

[JamesHeinrich]

I'm not sure. I don't have any way to replicate your environment so I'll leave it to you to figure out a proper workaround. Or perhaps someone else can chime in and offer their suggestions.

A very poor temporary fix would be to simply put return $path; before the problem line and effectively bypass the whole checking mechanism, but that should be avoided except for local testing.

[sashabeep]

module realpath_turbo was used for this
https://github.com/Whissi/realpath_turbo