Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> I don't think we can fix this. file_read returns a str, and str can
have at most SSIZE_T_MAX entries. So, file_read could read size_t
characters, but it couldn't return them.

But at least it could read more than LONG_MAX characters.

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