If I install a user save handler class
e.g. MySqlSessionHandler with methods Read, Write, GC etc.

MySqlSessionHandler::Read($sess_id) is always called before
MySqlSessionHandler::GC($maxlifetime)

This has the problem, that a session is read, which potentially would be garbage collected.

Therefore it would be nice to get the $maxlifetime parameter also in Read e.g. Read($sess_id, $maxlifetime)

This allows to return an empty session if it has timeouted.

For Clarification here are two Methods GC and Read with $lifetime information

function Read($sess_id, $maxlifetime)
	{	
		// beware of timouted sessions not yet gced
		$time_stamp= time();
		$removeDate= date("YmdHis", ($time_stamp - $maxlifetime));

		$search_query=	"SELECT * FROM $_session_table WHERE (session_id = '$sess_id') and (last_accessed >= $removeDate)";
		$result= @ mysql_query($search_query, $_connection);
		if(!$result)
		{
			// No session found - return an empty string
			return "";
		}
		else
		{
			// Found a session - return the serialized string
			$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
			return $row["session_variable"];
		}
	}

function GC($max_lifetime)
	{
		global $_connection;
		global $_session_table;

		$time_stamp= time();
		$removeDate= date("YmdHis", ($time_stamp - $max_lifetime));

		$delete_query = "DELETE FROM $_session_table WHERE last_accessed < $removeDate";
		$result = @mysql_query($delete_query,$_connection);
		
		return true;
	}