#33738 [Opn->Bgs]: stat() returns wrong size on large files (>2^31 bytes)

ID: 33738 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: mpb dot mail at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Filesystem function related Operating System: FreeBSD PHP Version: 5.0.4 New Comment: RTFM: http://www.php.net/filesize Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-07-18 01:10:10] mpb dot mail at gmail dot com Description: ------------ stat() returns the wrong size for large files. This is because a 64 bit integer (at the OS level) is truncated to 32 bits (at the PHP level). (This will not be a problem on platforms where PHP integer type is 64 bits.) In C, the stat() function returns st_size as type off_t, which I suspect is 64 bits on most modern operatings systems. I'm not sure what the solution for this is. Perhaps if the size is greater than PHP's maximum interegr value (varies by platform), then the size is converted to a float? This would be nice. Looks like the filesize() function has a similar problem. Perhaps you will consider this to be a "bogus" bug, but I really think PHP can do better than arbitrarily converting 64 bit ints to 32 bit ints (which can result in files with negative lengths). If returning a float is not an option, how about returning a size of -1, or MAX_INT, or an error code. Reproduce code: --------------- // verylargefile is 3751661568 bytes, in this case $stat = lstat ('/path/to/verylargefile'); $size = $stat['size']; print "size: $size\n"; Expected result: ---------------- size: 3751661568 Actual result: -------------- size: -543305728 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33738&edit=1