Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce
this bug ourselves. 

A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>,
is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external 
resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a 
database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates 
all necessary tables, stored procedures etc.

Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.

just run a CLI script with no session started - the line from te origin report is one of many thousands and it's intention is to work environment independet and get/send the correct cookie for thousands of curl calls

i will rewrite the code now to "ini_get('session.name'); but that don't change the fact that there is some BC change

http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php

> session_name() returns the name of the current session. If name is given, 
> session_name() will update the session name and return the old session name
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$session_name = session_name();

do you see a name given here?

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WTF - did you even read the error message from the initial report and the fact calling the function without parameters is not supposed to write any headers or start a session - i just want the current setting to parse out the session cookie from response headers on that same machine 

However, do what you want, as I said for my use case ini_get is a workaround while it could be prohibited on production machines and when session_name changed the name it is probably no longer the same value

Affects master only.
<?php echo " "; session_name();

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/7f196e321fa464075248eced7d0d2c046b686b24

session_name, session_module_name, session_save_path, session_cache_limiter, and session_cache_expire could all use changes like

- 	if (SG(headers_sent)) {
+	if (name && SG(headers_sent)) {

(which is used now but inconsistently) to allow read-only calls. Also, session_cache_expire has a RETURN_LONG for an active session where the other functions will RETURN_FALSE.

It seems current master's session_name() is changed to send cookie even when it shouldn't.


[yohgaki@dev PHP-master]$ ./sapi/cli/php -r 'var_dump($n=session_name("foo"));var_dump(session_name());'
string(9) "PHPSESSID"

Warning: session_name(): Cannot change session name when headers already sent in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)
[yohgaki@dev PHP-master]$ php -v
PHP 7.0.20 (cli) (built: Jun  7 2017 04:59:25) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.20, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies
[yohgaki@dev PHP-master]$ php -r 'var_dump($n=session_name("foo"));var_dump(session_name());'
string(9) "PHPSESSID"
string(3) "foo"