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Bug #47997 stream_copy_to_stream returns 1 on empty streams
Submitted: 2009-04-16 23:52 UTC Modified: 2009-04-19 13:56 UTC
From: robots at shad dot pp dot ru Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Streams related
PHP Version: 5.2.9 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-04-16 23:52 UTC] robots at shad dot pp dot ru 
Description:
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Function returns 1 even if used to copy empty stream.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

// Creating empty file
$src = fopen('srcfile.tmp', 'w+');
fclose($src);

$src = fopen('srcfile.tmp', 'r');
$dst = fopen('dstfile.tmp', 'w+');

echo stream_copy_to_stream($src, $dst);

fclose($src);
fclose($dst);

?>

Expected result:
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0

Actual result:
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1

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 [2009-04-17 11:08 UTC] jani@php.net 
From streams.c:

"in the event that the source file is 0 bytes, return 1 to indicate success because opening the file to write had already created a copy"

Looks like yet another design flaw in the streams API.
 [2009-04-19 13:56 UTC] lbarnaud@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2012-02-25 10:58 UTC] odoucet@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of odoucet
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=323498
Log: fix test file for bug #47997 : fopen(data://) requires allow_url_fopen=1
 
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