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4.8 <tt class="module">Session</tt> - Session Management
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The <tt class="module">Session</tt> module provides objects for maintaining persistent
sessions across requests.

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The module contains a <tt class="class">BaseSession</tt> class, which is not meant to
be used directly (it provides no means of storing a session), 
<tt class="class">DbmSession</tt> class, which uses a dbm to store sessions, and
<tt class="class">FileSession</tt> class, which uses individual files to store
sessions.

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The <tt class="class">BaseSession</tt> class also provides session locking, both
across processes and threads. For locking it uses APR global_mutexes
(a number of them is pre-created at startup) The mutex number is
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