Hi,

In message "Bug in session.rb?"
    on 03/12/28, Carl Youngblood <carl / ycs.biz> writes:

|I think I may have found a bug in ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb.  In the 
|FileStore class's restore method, it acquires an exclusive lock on the 
|session file in order to read it in safely, but it doesn't release it. 
|I've been running mod_fastcgi, which keeps multiple processes resident 
|in memory to handle cgi requests.  The first cgi request to get the lock 
|stays in memory and doesn't allow it to be accessed in the future.  I've 
|fixed this by simply releasing the lock after it is no longer needed.  I 
|just added the following line to the end of FileStore::restore:
|
|@f.flock File::LOCK_UN

flock would be released when you close the port, thus don't forget to
close the session, that eventually closes @f inside.  I will examine
adding LOCK_UN anyway.

							matz.