Hi Davey, On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > I was planning to fix session_start() behaviors by PHP 7.1, but I > forgot to do this completely. Partial fix is merged currently. > > Following PR makes session_start() return FALSE when it cannot start > session always. > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2167 > > In short, this patch fixes number of session_start()'s insane behaviors. > > Original session_start() is designed to continue execution as much as > it can. This design caused a lot of issues including number of crash > bugs. We've removed most issues caused by this design, but > session_start() behaves insane way. e.g. Return TRUE and initializes > $_SESSION array for useless session, improper error messages, memory > leak, etc. (Please verify phpt changes how this patch makes > session_start() behave sane way) > > This fix may change app behavior. However, it changes behavior only > when there is useless session which is fatal anyway. Therefore, it > could be applied to PHP 7.1. IMO. > > What do you think?
Since session_start() is made to set proper session status finally, many bugs and inconsistencies can be fixed altogether. I pushed patch fixes number of nonsense/inconsistent session function behaviors. The additional patch is pushed so that it's easy to cherry pick minimum fixes. The last push is the additional fixes. - Disallow nonsense function usage. . Do not allow to change cookie parameters when it has no effects. session_set_cookie_params() session_cache_limiter() . Dn not allow to change INI parameters when it cannot be changed. session_name() session_module_name() session_save_path() session_set_save_handler() session_cache_expire() . Do not allow parameter for void parameter functions. session_unset() session_write_close() session_commit() session_abort() session_reset() - Return function status as it should. . session_abort() session_flush() session_commit() session_write_close() session_reset() session_destroy() - Raise proper errors. . Many functions. Session module allows insane usage currently. This will fix most of them. I need to address nonsense INI usage. There will be one more push at least for this. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php