Bug #79263 [Com]: finfo_buffer fails with "PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of"

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79263&edit=1 ID: 79263 Comment by: bugreports at gmail dot com Reported by: anestis at fraganestis dot eu Summary: finfo_buffer fails with "PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of" Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: Debian 9 PHP Version: 7.4.2 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: or don't pass around whole files in strings which allocates memory often two or even three times $h = finfo_open(); $mime_type = finfo_file($h, $path, FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); finfo_close($h); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-02-12 23:45:58] KseniMailwow at gmail dot com Use memory_limit (in ini) to increase the memory limit. This is not a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-02-12 07:08:04] anestis at fraganestis dot eu Description: ------------ finfo_buffer for the contents of a specific file (which I can provide but not make it completely public) fails with PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 138546568 bytes) Test script: --------------- function getBufferMime($buffer) { $h = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME); $mime = finfo_buffer($h, $buffer); finfo_close($h); return $mime; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79263&edit=1