> Looking at the php session code in the ext/session/mod_files.c file > which is what I believe is used to handle the file based sessions, > flock() is called on the session file itself, using an exclusive lock. > Maybe I missed a bit of the thread somewhere on this bit... what is > the problem with the file system-based locking?
flock() doesn't work on/across/under NFS. Thus, PHP sessions aren't NFS-safe, thus, lots of us are screwed. LVS allows us to work around this problem anyway, yada yada. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
