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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:20:30 +0300
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
Cc: Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: session_reset() and session_abort() to send errors
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

>> Well, I just re-checked it and does indeed just call
>> php_session_initialize(), so what's the point? Shorthand for
>> session_abort() && session_start() ?
>
>
> Yes, it's an API for it.
> It's more efficient than user land functions as it requires needless
> close and open (and initialization required to open).

I'm confused now, does it call open() or does it not?
If it doesn't - it's unsafe.
If it does - it's unclear, redundant and optimizes by silently
discarding already open resources (without properly closing them).

Either way, I like efficiency but I also see it as flawed.

Cheers,
Andrey.