Patch for fix ext/session/mod_files.c on windows:

--- mod_files.c.orig    Tue May 20 20:01:54 2003
+++ mod_files.c Fri Aug 15 05:12:40 2003
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
 static void ps_files_close(ps_files *data)
 {
        if (data->fd != -1) {
+               flock(data->fd, LOCK_UN);
                close(data->fd);
                data->fd = -1;
        }
@@ -275,8 +276,10 @@
        if (data->fd < 0)
                return FAILURE;

-       if (fstat(data->fd, &sbuf))
+  if (fstat(data->fd, &sbuf)) {
+    flock(data->fd, LOCK_UN);
                return FAILURE;
+  }

        data->st_size = *vallen = sbuf.st_size;
        *val = emalloc(sbuf.st_size);
@@ -287,6 +290,7 @@
        lseek(data->fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
        n = read(data->fd, *val, sbuf.st_size);
 #endif
+  flock(data->fd, LOCK_UN);

        if (n != sbuf.st_size) {
                if (n == -1)
@@ -325,6 +329,7 @@
        lseek(data->fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
        n = write(data->fd, val, vallen);
 #endif
+  flock(data->fd, LOCK_UN);

        if (n != vallen) {
                if (n == -1)

Other case apache hangs up.

I've been trying to reproduce this without luck..can you please give a simple test case with which you have reproduced this reliably?

Unfortunatelly i can't give a code. It closed development. And i have not time now for produce purified test example.

I try to describe

1 Create page with form with 2 input fields login & pass and submit button (login page).

2 Create auto prepend file with session check. If no session go to login page.

3 Change session parameters in auto prepend file
ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1-5);
session_save_path('deep 4-5');
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', near 20000);

4 On login submit create session. Put to her both parameter login and pass. If session created (parameters setted) redirect to other pages with 2-3 frames which check session settings too.

5 Made many quickly switchings over this frames. 1st, 2nd, 3d, again 1st.

6 Apache without patch hangs up.

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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