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Doc Bug #35859 fread limited to 8K
Submitted: 2005-12-31 14:20 UTC Modified: 2006-02-26 19:00 UTC
From: cpuidle at gmx dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.1.1 OS: WinXP SP2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-12-31 14:20 UTC] cpuidle at gmx dot de 
Description:
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I'm experiencing a very weird bug where fread is limited to 8K though the source file (ANSI) is bigger than 8K. I was not able to reproduce the bug standalone, only inside a complex application.

This does not happen with PHP5.0.5, but with 5.1.1.

Unfortunately the sample code does not reproduce the problem standalone, but demonstrates the effect.

Reproduce code:
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function _read_file($filename)
{
if ( file_exists($filename) && ($fd = @fopen($filename, 'rb')) ) {
    $contents = ($size = filesize($filename)) ? fread($fd, $size) : '';
    echo("_read_file($filename) \$size: $size strlen(\$contents): ".strlen($contents)."<br/>");
    fclose($fd);
}
}

_read_file('templates/elegant/\show.tpl');

Expected result:
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Output:
_read_file(templates/elegant/\show.tpl) $size: 9520 strlen($contents): 9520

Actual result:
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Output:
_read_file(templates/elegant/\show.tpl) $size: 9520 strlen($contents): 8192

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 [2006-01-06 16:50 UTC] sniper@php.net 
reclassified (see bug #30936 for Wez's comment)
 [2006-01-06 16:55 UTC] cpuidle at gmx dot de 
OK, at least a documentation problem, thanks. The dependency on stread wrappers still seem to be a non-docs bug to me. And the sudden change in behaviour certainly doesn't help with the often-claimed enterprise readiness...
Why should existing 5.0.5 code suddenly break with 5.1.1?
 [2006-01-13 12:00 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

"Reading stops when up to length bytes have been read, EOF (end of file) is reached, (for network streams) when a packet becomes available, or (for userspace streams) when 8192 bytes have been read whichever comes first."
 [2006-01-16 09:19 UTC] cpuidle at gmx dot de 
Sorry, but the documentation is still wrong- did anybody ever look at the code to reproduce?!

"or (for userspace streams) when 8192 bytes have been read whichever comes
first."

When stream wrappers are not used (even unrelated protocols count as stream wrapper use), the 8K limit is not in effect. 

So- documentation wrong again...
 [2006-01-30 16:48 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

"(for userspace streams)" changed to "(after opening userspace stream)".
 [2006-02-26 19:00 UTC] cpuidle at gmx dot de 
Now to summarize what happened:

1) For local files, PHP behaved exactly like documented until version 5.1.0
2) When 5.1.1 was introduced, local file behaviour for fread() changed to limit to 8K blocks- however if and only if a user stream was opened before
3) In response to this, the documentation was changed to accomodate for the user stream behaviour.

What I'm asking the PHP developers community to ask them selves very seriously is this:

a) won't this break compatibility with many existing software as PHP5 becomes more widely spread (Smarty etc)?
b) isn't the bahviour change of fread depending on other criteria itself a strangeness? and
c) looking at this issue- is PHP in any way enterprise-ready?

Sincerely,
Andreas Goetz
 
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