note 89468 deleted from function.session-start by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:17:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 89468 deleted from function.session-start by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Steve Clay
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As should be clear from other comments, PHP's default session handler locks session files. If
you set save_path to a location that doesn't support flock (like NFS), you may experience
delays or failures in writing/reading the file when calling session_start().
On my buggy NFS hosting setup, flocking blocks execution for 30s! I had to move sessions back to
/tmp (and am considering changing web hosts).