Description:
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The following has been tested on:

php-4.3.2               
php-4.3.4               
php-4.3.5rc2
php-4.3.5rc3
php4-STABLE-200310032330
php4-STABLE-200402101030
php4-STABLE-200402272030

with various compile options turned on/off (oracle support & turckmmcache), always giving same result

basically with every version of this some or most serialize() calls result in an incorrectlly constructed serialized string... given i only input plaintext, the serialized string must have a length of 6+strlen(original), albeit:

["cache_data"]=> string(9277) "s:9309:"... (oops!)
["cache_data"]=> string(24259) "s:24248:"... (correct.)
["cache_data"]=> string(23850) "s:23881:"... (oops!)
["cache_data"]=> string(224081) "s:224069:"... (correct.)
["cache_data"]=> string(21055) "s:21107:"... (WTF!)
["cache_data"]=> string(19590) "s:19663:"... (wrong)
...

http://scene-si.org/test.tgz - 800kb, contains 15Mb output of the reproduce code.
http://193.77.198.80/phpinfo.php for phpinfo()

Linux dahim 2.4.23-1-686 #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux (thats the server this runs on).

the funny part is, that this code (the same code to generate the entries in condor_dbcache) works also on other servers, also debian, iis, apache-win, redhat, mandrake, openbsd, freebsd.. it only fucked here..

after the serialize is done, the ONLY command it goes trough is mysql_escape_string, so there is no character or other conversions which could explain the wrong length in serialized() output

Reproduce code:
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<?php
mysql_pconnect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("condor");

$query = mysql_query("select * from condor_dbcache");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
        var_dump($row);
        var_dump(unserialize($row['cache_data']));
}

// unserialize throws out crap after serialized data end

Expected result:
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I dont want the "; and crap after it displayed.. but more accurately.. i want serialize to behave propperly here.

since i never had this problem, i pressume its a system dependant problem, i guess you'll want this:

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian)

if you need some other application version or lib version, comment - or atleast tell on what libs this depends.

Actual result:
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Content starts with ei: 's:9309:"<table wid' and ends with '<br><br>";' ... but the content length is 9277..

the content was input with serialize in the following way:

$content = serialize($content);
mysql_query("update condor_dbcache set cache_timestamp='".time()."', cache_data='".mysql_escape_string($content)."' where cache_filename='".mysql_escape_string($filename)."'");

filename beeing the correspondant key to this dbcache table.