Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6287 Updated: serialized script execution with file sessions

Bug Database wrote: > ID: 6287 > Updated by: sas > Reported By: omakarenko@cyberplat.ru > Status: Closed > Bug Type: Session related > Assigned To: > Comments: > > Serialization is necessary. Otherwise, we cannot guarantee the integrity of session data. > So that is by design... strange... Why then mod_mm doesn't hold the lock for a whole script life time? Nor does an mysql implementation... (there are no record locks in mysql at all)... Or have I misread something? > > The lock gets definitely always released. The program flow is not changed just because we > display an image instead of executing the script (see php_execute_script(). It simply returns. That is how it should work. But I see completely different behavior. The session file remains locked after the image was send to client. It is not released as the session file remains opened (lsof). > After this, any SAPI module will call php_request_shutdown() which calls > zend_deactivate_modules() which calls each request shutdown handler.) > But it doesn't (!) in the special case of ?=PHP_LOG. And THAT is definitely a bug.