#33814 [NEW]: Remove sess_* files while session_start(); is active

From: d43m0n at shaw dot ca Operating system: Windows PHP version: 5.0.4 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Remove sess_* files while session_start(); is active Description: ------------ Hello, In short, while a session is in progress, or running, we are not able to remove sess_* files by using unlink(). Yet, when a session is not active, I can remove all the files freely. There is nothing about this in the documentation, and there seems to be this issue all over forums searched from google. I feel this is a bug, as PHP should deny removing files while a session is active. The following produces this error "Warning: unlink(./tmp/sess_2b8185697c7b9d826773403c1477041f) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in X:\path\to\script.php on line 0" <?php define("_PATH_TMP", "X:/dir/to/my/tmp"); ini_set('session.save_path', _PATH_TMP); session_start(); $_SESSION['sid']['obsolete'] = session_id(); session_regenerate_id(); $_SESSION['sid']['replaced'] = session_id(); unlink('./tmp/' . $_SESSION['sid']['obsolete']) print_r($_SESSION); ?> As well, the garbage collection doesnt seem to be working, all I see is my sessions keep piling up since I have my script regenerate an id, thus create a new file in my defined tmp directory. If session_set_cookie_params worked properally, I would beable to define both id's thus to say I could unlink the file with $_COOKIE['sid']['obsolete']. As well, as I read apon session_regenerate_id() its suppose to remove the file apon complition... well, in short, its not! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33814&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33814&r=mysqlcfg