Well, if you look carefully at the code for the clean method, you will see that it has a bug as well... The culprit is on line 136 of Apache::Session::Lock::File:

if ((stat($dir.'/'.$file))[8] >= $time) - $now {

This says: take the last access time of the lock file, subtract the current time and see if it is bigger than the proposed timelimit ($time). Since the current time will always be bigger than the last accees time, this number will always be negative. So unless you provided a negative timelimit to the clean function, the condition for deletion will never be met. Reversing the subtraction should fix the problem.

if ($now - (stat($dir.'/'.$file))[8] >= $time) {

Or you could pass a negative time limit to the clean method, but that could break if this bug ever gets fixed and you upgrade.

Now, again I will try to convince you to scrap the File based sessions and move to at least the DB_File based one.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Cleaning up sessions created by Apache::Session::File when logging out of a CGI application by cees
in thread Cleaning up sessions created by Apache::Session::File when logging out of a CGI application by Joey The Saint

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