if session.save_pathin php.ini is set to something like c:\temp  a simple script returns following output if executed like 'php.exe demo.php', then crashes
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.0
> Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=c83de3a1ecdad212a0bf745ed516e43e
> Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
> Cache-Control: no-cache, post-check=0, pre-check=0
> Pragma: no-cache
> Content-type: text/html
> 
> <br>
> <b>Warning</b>:  open(\temp/sess_c83de3a1ecdad212a0bf745ed516e43e, O_RDWR) faile
> d: m (2) in <b>reg.php</b> on line <b>3</b><br>

if session.save_path is set to a relative path it works, but my htdocs-directory gets garbeled with temporary files