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Bug #37505 touch() truncates large files
Submitted: 2006-05-18 16:11 UTC Modified: 2006-05-19 02:51 UTC
From: radu dot rendec at ines dot ro Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Streams related
PHP Version: 5.1.5CVS OS: GNU/Linux i386
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2006-05-18 16:11 UTC] radu dot rendec at ines dot ro
Description:
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The touch() function truncates the file if it is a "large file" (i.e. larger than 2GB).

Current PHP touch() implementation uses stat() to test if the file already exists and only checks the return value, assuming that -1 means the file does not exist. However, with large files, stat() fails with "Value too large for defined data type".


Reproduce code:
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<?php
touch("test");
?>

Expected result:
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File "test" remains intact, only file times change.

Actual result:
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File "test" is truncated to 0 (all contents is lost). This only happens when "test" was larger than 2GB.


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 [2006-05-19 02:51 UTC] iliaa@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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