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Return INT value for some disk_* operations #22583

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@KarelWintersky

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Currently (and for who knows how many years), a number of functions responsible for working with the file system return float values ​​instead of integers.

Does this seem confusing? A fractional number of bytes? How so?

One might assume that in the days of the 32-bit PHP, the integer type wasn't large enough to accommodate the possible disk sizes of the time, but in 2026, this seems absurd. Not to mention that comparing floating-point numbers is an ambiguous operation.

Functions that return float values ​​instead of integers are:

P.S.

The behavior looks especially strange considering that the function filesize returns an integer value...

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