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Bug #66638 Using SEEK_CUR to seek before start in php://memory produces incorrect results
Submitted: 2014-02-03 23:58 UTC Modified: 2014-02-04 12:34 UTC
From: madhusudancs at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Streams related
PHP Version: master-Git-2014-02-03 (Git) OS: Linux (likely all)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2014-02-03 23:58 UTC] madhusudancs at gmail dot com
Description:
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When using php://memory stream, attempting to seek behind the start position, produces incorrect results.

Sample test case below (in the next field)

Test case should print the entire stream (all the bytes in the stream, but it prints an empty string.



Test script:
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<?php
$fh = fopen('php://memory', 'w');

for ($ii = 0; $ii < 10; $ii++) {
   fwrite($fh, "[$ii] hello world. ");
}

$sz = 170;

fseek($fh, $sz - 100, SEEK_SET);

fseek($fh, -$sz, SEEK_CUR);

var_dump(fread($fh, $sz));
?>


Expected result:
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string(170) "[0] hello world. [1] hello world. [2] hello world. [3] hello world. [4] hello world. [5] hello world. [6] hello world. [7] hello world. [8] hello world. [9] hello world. "

Actual result:
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string(0) ""

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 [2014-02-04 02:00 UTC] madhusudancs at gmail dot com
-Summary: Using SEEK_CUR to seek behind start in a produces incorrect result +Summary: Using SEEK_CUR to seek before start in php://memory produces incorrect results
 [2014-02-04 02:00 UTC] madhusudancs at gmail dot com
Updating the summary line
 [2014-02-04 12:34 UTC] krakjoe@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2014-02-04 12:34 UTC] krakjoe@php.net
The second call to fseek returns -1, which you should be checking for, you get unexpected results as a result of not checking return values. 

I'm not sure why you expect to be able to read before the start of a memory stream, but this isn't a bug, the code is wrong.
 
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