Re: [PHP4BETA] Glahrrgh... Sessions...

Sascha Schumann wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Boris Erdmann wrote:
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> Boris, your email was so full of ignorance that I had to delete the first
> version of my reply.
> 
> Straight Facts:
> 
> First, there have been no reports about the "typical concurrency problem."
> 
> Second, it is right that you cannot control the concurrency behaviour
> of sessions. We enforce the most strict protocol to ensure integrity
> of data.
> 
> Third, the PHP session code itself will _never_ cause any corrupted
> data, because we lock every file during a page request. That means
> that at any given time there will be only one request which accesses
> the underlying session storage object.

Ok, I didnt know about the third fact. And i apologize for that and
for the tone of my mail, should it have offended anyone doing hard
work on the PHP project.

But there have been some reports on "strange behaviour" about two month
ago, which i obvously misinterpreted as concurrency problems. (As far
as i remeber no developer showed a reaction on those reports.)

I still feel that - exactly in the situation of frames - being
able to start a read only only request would be a good thing.

Once again: I'm sorry for having upset you

Boris