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Bug #58864 Reference sets not maintained.
Submitted: 2009-09-21 05:08 UTC Modified: 2016-11-18 20:52 UTC
From: stuart_hayton at uk dot ibm dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: APC (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Ubuntu Linux 32bit
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-09-21 05:08 UTC] stuart_hayton at uk dot ibm dot com
Description:
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If I store an array containing references to a single value then I believe the reference set should be maintained when I fetch the value, behaving as though it had been serialized and deserialized. In the test case here only 1 member of the reference set is actually modified though the reference counts suggest that the set still exists.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$n = null;

// initialise an array with reference set
$s = 'some string';
$a[] =& $s; 
$a[] =& $s; 
$a[] =& $s; 
$s =& $n; // so the reference count is clear

debug_zval_dump($a);
var_dump(apc_store('a', $a));
$a = apc_fetch('a');

// modifiy it
$s =& $a[0];
$s = 'other string';
$s = & $n;

debug_zval_dump($a);

?>


Expected result:
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array(3) refcount(2){
  [0]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
  [1]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
  [2]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
}
bool(true)
array(3) refcount(2){
  [0]=>
  &string(12) "other string" refcount(3)
  [1]=>
  &string(12) "other string" refcount(3)
  [2]=>
  &string(12) "other string" refcount(3)
}


Actual result:
--------------
array(3) refcount(2){
  [0]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
  [1]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
  [2]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(3)
}
bool(true)
array(3) refcount(1){
  [0]=>
  &string(12) "other string" refcount(4)
  [1]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(4)
  [2]=>
  &string(11) "some string" refcount(4)
}


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 [2009-09-22 06:33 UTC] gopalv82 at yahoo dot com
Ouch, I thought I got this right the last three times I fixed this.

A work-around this is to store the array as an object.

apc_store('a', (object)($a));

will do exactly what serialize/deserialize does.
 [2016-11-18 20:52 UTC] kalle@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 [2016-11-18 20:52 UTC] kalle@php.net
APC is no longer supported in favor of opcache that comes bundled with PHP, if you wish to use the user cache, then look at PECL/APCu.
 
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