#14798 [Com]: session.gc_maxlifetime does not work (Reopen Bug ID #3793)

ID: 14798 Comment by: SKJoy2001 at Yahoo dot Com Reported By: bs_php at infeer dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows ONLY PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: well, though the issue is very old, but as I could discover what really happens right now, i am posting. this trouble is not a windows issue, but a PHP issue. it happens for the way GC is implemented in PHP. when a request is made, PHP doesn't really check for the session time out for the requested session. instead, PHP checks the other sessions for time out & deletes the files if the session associated to that file is timed out. so, your session will never be timed out, until another session request comes to PHP after the amount of time your session is suppose to time out. this is not an issue any developer can solve, but this has to be solved by PHP itself (if you really find it a trouble like me, there are logics in favoure & against regarding what PHP does now). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-16 21:33:22] rasmus@php.net The fact that the filebased session handler needs a filesystem with atime support has now been documented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-16 21:02:44] rasmus@php.net I really don't see anybody with any interest in writing code to make this work on FAT filesystems. Don't run web servers on crap filesystems. If you do, write your own session handler. Same goes for filesystems where file modification timestamps are ignored. Write your own session handler and manage the garbage collection yourself. We'll need to document this, of course, so marking this as a documentation problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-02 10:50:31] chlabicz at plusnet dot pl The bug almost killed me. >[23 Jan 6:00am] yohgaki@php.net >Could you try see if it helps? >session.save_path = C:\tmp\path\for\session\data >..... But wouldn't the session.gc_probability = 0 do the same (for me it seems to work fine). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-26 06:37:27] yohgaki@php.net Please do _NOT_ add comment if you are using other than Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-26 03:14:52] zhaoxd at capitel dot com dot cn My Operating System is Linux,and I found the same error. session.gc_maxlifetime = 60 It's doesn't work ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/14798 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14798&edit=1