Bug #2033: serialize() produces: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 4160742841l bytes

From: elfchief@lupine.org Operating system: SunOS 4.1.3 PHP version: 3.0.12 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: serialize() produces: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 4160742841l bytes Calling serialize() produces an "unable to allocate insane amounts of memory" error... Even <? serialize(5); ?> will produce this error. This is caused because functions/var.c is using sprintf() rather than _php3_sprintf(), where the latter is designed to work around a 'feature' in SunOS where sprintf returns the string written (char *) rather than the number of characters written (int). 1,$ s/sprintf/_php3_sprintf/g in functions/var.c to repair this problem. (I also noticed the same problem in interbase.c, though I don't use that module myself. The fix is left as an exercise for the reader :)