Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 43392bc..ba0b55b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
+
 - When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
   generator.
 
@@ -908,7 +910,7 @@
   (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
 
 - Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
-  stdprinter.write() clamp the length to 2^31-1 on Windows.
+  stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
 
 - Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
   can now handle dates after 2038.
diff --git a/Modules/_io/fileio.c b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
index 141b6de..b1d492b 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/fileio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
@@ -664,6 +664,10 @@
         return fileio_readall(self);
     }
 
+#if defined(MS_WIN64) || defined(MS_WINDOWS)
+    if (size > INT_MAX)
+        size = INT_MAX;
+#endif
     bytes = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, size);
     if (bytes == NULL)
         return NULL;
@@ -672,7 +676,11 @@
     if (_PyVerify_fd(self->fd)) {
         Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
         errno = 0;
+#if defined(MS_WIN64) || defined(MS_WINDOWS)
+        n = read(self->fd, ptr, (int)size);
+#else
         n = read(self->fd, ptr, size);
+#endif
         Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
     } else
         n = -1;