From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-11-21T00:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: untainted, unfrozen, honest-to-god session data!

>>>>> "C" == Chris  <nemo@hellotree.com> writes:

C> My concern is Marshalling symbols.  I thought that Symbols weren't
C> necessarily always the same.  Now in mod_ruby, the ruby program is always
C> running, right?  So the Symbols would always be the same unless I restarted
C> httpd, right?

 When ruby marshal a symbol it store the _string_, when it reload it it
 re-create the symbol from the string.

pigeon% ruby -e 'p Marshal.dump(:symbol)'
"\004\006:\vsymbol"
pigeon% 

pigeon% ruby -e 'p Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(:symbol))'
:symbol
pigeon% 

 the symbols should be the same, even if you restart httpd



Guy Decoux