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Bug #67370 Fseek does not return error (-1) on read out of file
Submitted: 2014-06-02 07:47 UTC Modified: 2014-06-02 09:11 UTC
From: roman4e at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.5.13 OS: linux mint 15
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-06-02 07:47 UTC] roman4e at gmail dot com 
Description:
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php v.5.5.5 (cli) (built: Mar 17 2014 12:31:03) (DEBUG)

fseek() does not return error (-1) on read out of file, returns 0


Test script:
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$f = fopen("file","r"); // file must be several KBytes size
$page = 0;
while ( !fseek($f,$page,SEEK_SET) )
{
   $page += 1024;
   $str = fread($f,1024);
   if ( $str === false )
      die("error reading block");
}

echo "ok"

Expected result:
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fseek should return -1;


Actual result:
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file size of 76800
result of reading out of file. last parametr is type of data returned by fread
Pageoff = 75776 fseek=0 ftell=75776 read=1024 string
Pageoff = 76800 fseek=0 ftell=76800 read=0 string
Pageoff = 77824 fseek=0 ftell=77824 read=0 string

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 [2014-06-02 08:23 UTC] mike@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2014-06-02 08:23 UTC] mike@php.net 
One can set the file pointer beyond EOF, this is not a bug.
 [2014-06-02 08:58 UTC] roman4e at gmail dot com 
change code:
while ( !fseek($f,$page,SEEK_SET) && !feof($f))

So why in that case !feof($f) does not return true when go out end of file?
 [2014-06-02 09:11 UTC] mike@php.net 
Because fseek clears the EOF condition, reverse your conditions.
 [2014-06-02 10:36 UTC] roman4e at gmail dot com 
Thank you much!
 
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