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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:39:05 +0400
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Subject: Opinion needed (bug #45928)
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45928

Christian Schneider wrote:

> I had a quick look at this bug and found the problem to be in
> Zend/zend_stream.c function zend_stream_fsize(): It uses fstat() to
> determine the filesize which on MacOS X for pipes returns either 0 (my
> interpretation: no data from the pipe ready yet) or a number up to 16384
> (my interpretation: data from the pipe ready but the maximum buffer size
> is 16k).
>
> I see several solutions but I'm not sure which is the desired one:
> - return 0 (size unknown) if the file is a pipe (or socket, ...)
> - return 0 if the file is not a regular file (or symlink, dir?)
> - look into a way of determining EOF reached
>
> As a quick test I changed
>     return buf.st_size;
> in function zend_stream_fsize() to
>     return 0;
> and cat 30k.php | php worked after that.
>
> I posted this to internals@php.net but did not get any reply so I'm not
> sure how to proceed.

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/