#20015 [NEW]: session.auto_start diables flushing output

From: amir@abiri-e.com Operating system: Linux Redhat 7.2 PHP version: 4.2.3 PHP Bug Type: Output Control Bug description: session.auto_start diables flushing output I'm not sure this is indeed a bug, I tried looking for some piece of documentation about this, but failed. I wrote a script that used the flush() command and it failed to operate correctly. knowing the many possible pitfalls around output buffering, and since the role of the script is a web-crawler anyway, I moved it to the cli version, yet the problem persisted - the script (which is meant to work for hours) refuses to flush it's output, no matter what I did. After going over the ini file line by line commenting and uncommenting, I found that "session.auto_start = 1" causes php to fail any form of output buffer flushing: flush(), ob_flush() and implicit_flush directive, even with the cli sapi. I don't want to duplicate the ini file, therefore I would be happy to find a way to keep the apache module with session.auto_start=1, yet overcoming this issue, so to be able to flush my output, at least in cli scripts. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20015&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20015&r=isapi