Re: Session management module - thoughts

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:32:44AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Note that writing this simple API raises a couple of problems, and I think > it would be best for us to concentrate on them instead of dividing our > efforts into a feature-full API that will never be properly implemented, > at least not in the near future. The problem it raises as I see them: > > * Platform independent file locking We can build upon the UW IMAP programmer's experience in this case, their code is known to work on dozens of platforms. They have documented their locking efforts in docs/locking.txt available in the standard imap distribution. If that is not enough, qmail claims to support "any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him [the user] at the same time." By using a maildir-related technique, we could probably even support NFS mounted working directories. > * Cleanup of old sessions Well, that is a hairy point. PHPLIB uses a non-deterministic method (calling rand(), if the result is smaller than a given value, it executes a garbage collection function). > Unless somebody seriously objects to what I say here, I think we should > begin to discuss how to go about doing that. I agree with you. But that does not stop me to think about API extensions. ;) So, forget my proposal, the API will be as light-weight as possible. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net