[BNM] session_start causing PHP to hang

[David Andrew]

Hi James

Did you manage to resolve the issue? I believe there is a similar
issue with one f my clients.

D

2008/6/3 James Moss <email at jamesmoss.co.uk>:
> Just a few simple strings and integers, nothing as complex as recursive data
> structures.
>
> I think I might have just found something in the manual:
>
> "It seems that the session file is opened exclusively.
> On some occasions (Windows) I have found that the file lock is not released
> properly for whatever reason, therefore causing session_start() to hang
> infinitely on any future script executions.
> My way round this problem was to use session_set_save_handler() and make
> sure the write function used fopen($file, 'w') instead of fopen($file, 'x')"
>
> This sounds very similar to our situation...
>
>
>
>
>
> On 03/06/2008, Alex Farran <alex at alexfarran.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> What's stored in your session?  Could it be stuck in an infinite loop
>> deserialising a recursive data structure?
>>
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