Hi,

Is this merged to php.ini-recommended?

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Yasuo Ohgaki

Colin Viebrock wrote:
> cmv           Mon Oct  7 13:58:27 2002 EDT
> 
>   Modified files:              
>     /php4     php.ini-dist 
>   Log:
>   Document session.save_path option in php.ini
>   
>   
>   
> Index: php4/php.ini-dist
> diff -u php4/php.ini-dist:1.161 php4/php.ini-dist:1.162
> --- php4/php.ini-dist:1.161   Thu Oct  3 02:52:23 2002
> +++ php4/php.ini-dist Mon Oct  7 13:58:27 2002
> @@ -766,6 +766,15 @@
>  ; Argument passed to save_handler.  In the case of files, this is the path
>  ; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this 
>  ; variable in order to use PHP's session functions.
> +; As of PHP 4.2.3, you can define the path as:
> +;     session.save_path = "N;/path"
> +; where N is an integer.  Instead of storing all the session files in 
> +; /path, what this will do is create subdirectories N-levels deep, and 
> +; store the session data in those directories.  This is useful if you 
> +; or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is 
> +; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions.
> +; (Note: see the section on garbage collection below if you choose to
> +; use subdirectories for session storage)
>  session.save_path = /tmp
>  
>  ; Whether to use cookies.
> @@ -807,6 +816,14 @@
>  ;          not.  So, see session_set_save_handler() and write your own
>  ;          session handler with a different mechanism for cleaning up sessions.
>  session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
> +
> +; NOTE: If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files
> +;       (see session.save_path above), then garbage collection does *not*
> +;       happen automatically.  You will need to do your own garbage 
> +;       collection through a shell script, cron entry, or some other method. 
> +;       For example, the following script would is the equivalent of
> +;       setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 1440 (1440 seconds = 24 minutes):
> +;          cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin +24 | xargs rm
>  
>  ; PHP 4.2 and less have an undocumented feature/bug that allows you to
>  ; to initialize a session variable in the global scope, albeit register_globals
> 
> 



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