Session ID & Security

- c o v e n t r y - coventry at removethisandallhyphens-o-n-e.net
Fri Jul 19 21:06:01 EDT 2002


Why bother reinventing the wheel for a shared memory implementation when 
you could just use the filesystem like everyone is used to, just on a 
ram disk?

Linux and the BSDs have the capability to do this...

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Note that using shelve for holding session data shared between
> multiple threads or processes is of dangerous unless you're using a
> fancy dbm underneath (like Sleepycat).  Someone really should
> implement a session management scheme sometime using shared memory
> instead of messing around with stuff like shelve.




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