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I'm seeing some weird behavior. Got this line: my @stats = stat($f);

$f is the path to a file sitting on an amazon s3 bucket. I am using s3fs to mount the bucket on my instance and the path to the file looks like a normal path, something like: /backups/backups_db/some_dir/file. The backups_db is a symlink to /s3bucket/backups_db At any rate, @stats contains values from the stat() function above but in totally random order. Here's a dump of three different files:

[DEBUG] Rex.CLI: 206
        $VAR1 = [
          'gid',
          1000,
          'size',
          325342,
          'mode',
          '0644',
          'mtime',
          1623769844,
          'uid',
          1000,
          'atime',
          0
        ];

[DEBUG] Rex.CLI: 206
        $VAR1 = [
          'uid',
          1000,
          'size',
          325316,
          'atime',
          0,
          'gid',
          1000,
          'mode',
          '0644',
          'mtime',
          1623771735
        ];

[DEBUG] Rex.CLI: 206
        $VAR1 = [
          'gid',
          1000,
          'mtime',
          1623772143,
          'mode',
          '0644',
          'atime',
          0,
          'uid',
          1000,
          'size',
          325346
        ];
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I'm not sure if I'm just being an idiot on how to use the stat() function or if the stat() function does not work properly on a file on an s3 bucket using s3fs. If it's the latter, can this be fixed?

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In reply to stat() returning values in random order for files on s3 bucket? (SOLVED) by nysus

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