Debian Bug report logs - #792239
sessionclean does not support tiered session directory structure

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Package: php5
Version: 5.6.9+dfsg-0+deb8u1

The new session cleanup script in Jessie (/usr/lib/php5/sessionclean) 
has a few limitations in it.

1. It does not support a tiered directory structure (e.g. 
session.save_path=2;/var/lib/php5)
2. It does not support a symlinked session directory
3. (not a limitation, but parameter warning) The find command uses the 
-ignore_readdir_race option after a non-option argument

I've attached a patch to fix all of these.

1. Adjust sed to remove the "N;" or "N;MODE;" prefix from session.save_path
2. Add a / to the end of $save_path to look inside the symlinked 
directory. It should still work with regular directories.
3. Move the -ignore_readdir_race parameter

Changed lines:

14: save_path=$(echo "$session_config" | sed -ne 
's/^session\.save_path=\(.*;\)\?\(.*\)$/\2/p')
29: find -O3 "$save_path/" -depth -ignore_readdir_race -mindepth 1 -name 
'sess_*' -type f -cmin "+$gc_maxlifetime" -delete

[sessionclean_fixes.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
Any update on this issue? The change is very benign in the provided 
patch and it still works for the previous use cases.

--
Justin Pasher

Still no update?

Justin Pasher

Hi Justin,

this has been already fixed for (future) default version of PHP in
Debian stretch.

Unfortunately such a minor issue for edge case doesn't pass our Stable
Update policy that includes mostly serious bugs and security issues.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016, at 23:21, Justin Pasher wrote:
> Still no update?
> 
> Justin Pasher
> 
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Version: 5.6.26+dfsg-1+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package php5 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/841781

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Debian Bug report logs - #792239 sessionclean does not support tiered session directory structure

Debian Bug report logs - #792239
sessionclean does not support tiered session directory structure