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Doc Bug #23432 PHP using mtime instead of atime to clean session files
Submitted: 2003-04-30 17:35 UTC Modified: 2004-02-09 12:16 UTC
From: polone at townnews dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.2RC2 OS: N/A
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-04-30 17:35 UTC] polone at townnews dot com 
In the document:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

The documentation says that a file system supporting atime is needed - however, mod_files.c appears to be using mtime. May confuse administrators that mount file systems with noatime.

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 [2004-02-07 05:53 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
atime is used to keep track of last access to a file. If PHP can't determine the last access, how will it determine if it's garbage or not?...
 [2004-02-09 10:59 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
reclassified.
 [2004-02-09 12:16 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

bah....

I've found in cvs logs that mtime is used instead of atime since PHP 4.2.3, because the file is always updated.
 [2020-02-07 06:12 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of nlopess
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=20857c02501414c1a63a74893cb731a7ba31b87f
Log: fix #23432
 
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