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Bug #15260 file_exists doesn't work with 2G+ files
Submitted: 2002-01-28 14:57 UTC Modified: 2002-03-20 00:00 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:4.7 ± 0.5
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:2 (66.7%)
From: wweng at kencast dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions
PHP Version: 4.0.5 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-01-28 14:57 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
I have a 4G file in /opt/incoming called /opt/incoming/bigpackage.pck

I used 

if(file_exists("/opt/incoming/bigpackage.pck"))
    echo "Exists";
else
    echo "Not exists";

and it always returns me "Not exists".

I suspect the file_exists function has problem with 2G+ files.

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 [2002-01-28 14:59 UTC] jan@php.net 
can you please test either PHP 4.1.1 (latest release) or a cvs snapshot (snaps.php.net) ?
 [2002-01-28 15:00 UTC] mrobinso@php.net 
This is a limitation of the filesystem (and linux
kernel without LFS support), not php.
 [2002-01-28 15:02 UTC] jan@php.net 
how can he have a file of 4GB if his filesystem does not support it?
 [2002-01-28 15:15 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
Actually, I do have a 4Gig file on the file system. (Since we used the 64bit file operation for our software on all our file  I/O) 

[root@ECTWO root] ls -la /opt/incoming
total 4399256
drwxrwxr-x 2 **** **** 4096 Jan 28 13:35
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 28 10:44
-rw-rw-r-- 1 **** **** 4499238984 May 10 2001 BigPackage.fpk.pck
 [2002-01-28 15:15 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
Where can I (and how do I) get the source code to file_exists function?
 [2002-01-28 15:17 UTC] jan@php.net 
and then again, can you please test with a more recent PHP release?
 [2002-01-28 15:26 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
Can not seem to find the RPM(php-4.1.1) for Redhat 7.2. :(

There is no build environment on testing machines.
 [2002-01-28 15:44 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
I believe I had found the reason of this bug.

file_exists function ultimately calls VCWD_STAT function defined in TSRM/tsrm_virtual_cwd.h. However, the VCWD_STAT function is only a macro for stat(path, mode), and under Linux, you need stat64 for 64 bit file stats operations.

hmm, and all the file I/Os under PHP right now do not support 64 bits. This is bad...
 [2002-01-28 20:43 UTC] mrobinso@php.net 
If the OS is compiled and installed on a 64 bit system,
or with large file support (read: kernel, libc, others)
then calls to stat() and friends return 64-bit structures. You don't need to call stat64 expressly. A stock RedHat-7.2
box isn't 64bit compliant unless it's compiled that way.

The VCWD_STAT macro uses stat(path, buff), not
stat(path, mode). I've had a look at stat.h and see
the references to stat64(path, buff) if large file
support is defined, but I'm in a little over my head
here, so I bow to jan@php.net's mastery of php
internals.  :)

I don't have access to a 64bit box or fs to confirm, so I guess I jumped the gun on this one, but IMHO, this isn't a
PHP *bug*.

Sorry for the confusion.
 [2002-01-28 20:53 UTC] wweng at kencast dot com 
From what I had been researching on google, compiling a package with uniformed 64 bits I/O functions requires -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (and kernel 2.4.x and glibc 2.2.2+). I greped through the php 4.1.1 source code downloaded from php.net, couldn't find any trace of such option in any of the files. (At least I would think it should exist in the Makefile.ams) Maybe it had been forgotten?
 [2002-03-20 00:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 
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