note 24909 added to function.ignore-user-abort

From: Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:15:18 +0000
Subject: note 24909 added to function.ignore-user-abort
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It seems that this function does not perform anything on servers configured in "Safe Mode". This Safe Mode behavior can be seen as a security feature, however this creates a security issue when the user aborts in the middle of a critical update operation (for example when saving updated data in a locked text file, because this usually means truncating the existing content then writing the new data: the user abort event can occur just after truncation but before data is saved in the text file!) The only way to avoid this problem is to use a database with rollback logs that allow performing transaction safe updates. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24909 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24909 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24909

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