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--TEST--
GH-21986 (PharData::getContent() crash on circular symlink chain in tar)
--EXTENSIONS--
phar
--FILE--
<?php
function tar_symlink($name, $target) {
$h = str_pad($name, 100, "\0");
$h .= "0000777\0";
$h .= "0000000\0";
$h .= "0000000\0";
$h .= "00000000000\0";
$h .= "00000000000\0";
$h .= str_repeat(' ', 8);
$h .= '2';
$h .= str_pad($target, 100, "\0");
$h .= "ustar\0" . "00";
$h = str_pad($h, 512, "\0");

$sum = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < 512; $i++) {
$sum += ord($h[$i]);
}
return substr_replace($h, sprintf("%06o\0 ", $sum), 148, 8);
}

$tar = __DIR__ . '/gh21986.tar';
file_put_contents(
$tar,
tar_symlink('a.txt', 'b.txt') .
tar_symlink('b.txt', 'a.txt') .
str_repeat("\0", 1024)
);

$phar = new PharData($tar);
var_dump($phar['a.txt']->getContent());
?>
--CLEAN--
<?php
@unlink(__DIR__ . '/gh21986.tar');
?>
--EXPECT--
string(0) ""
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