Serious Session Handler Problem

Hi, I was hoping someone from the PHP team could respond to this. I am having major problems getting a custom session handler (oci8 based) to work in php-4.0.2 and php-4.0.3. I have set session.save_handler=user in the php.ini file and it registers in phpinfo(). I have also set the module_name specifically using : session_module_name('user'); The problem is that the write function does not work. I have seen many posts showing thae same problem (admittedly some of them are a result of not setting save_handler) and as yet have found no 'official' response. This seems to have been around since 4.0.1pl2. I have tried printing from the write function and also writing to a file whilst presuming that the session write is not called till after the page has finished processing. This is a major blow to a project we are working on. We can find ways around this but it has knocked our confidence in PHP somewhat. A prompt reply would be greatly appreciated. dev environment Sun Sparce Ultra 5 Solaris 8 APACHE-1.3.12 ./configure --with-layout=Apache --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=so --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=log_referer --enable-module=info --enable-module=status --add-module=src/modules/standard/mod_rewrite.c --add-module=src/modules/standard/mod_log_referer.c --add-module=src/modules/standard/mod_info.c --add-module=src/modules/standard/mod_status.c --enable-shared=max --server-uid=oracle --server-gid=dba PHP-4.0.2 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-track-vars=yes --enable-bcmatch=yes --enable-memory-limit=yes --enable-magic-quotes=yes --enable-trans-sid=yes --enable-nodebug=yes --with-oci8=$ORACLE_HOME/lib--with-oracle=$ORACLE_HOME/lib --without-mysql --enable-libgcc Tim Parkin Web Development Manager Didio Communications