在CodeIgniter之外使用CodeIgniter 3会话

I have a application that I am migrating into CodeIgniter 3.0. Most of the application is still in a custom PHP framework. I am wondering how I can share the PHP sessions between the two so when a user logs in, his session data is the same for the custom framework and CodeIgniter parts of the app.

Currently, when I go into a CodeIgniter portion, it creates the session fine (using the 'files' driver), but when I go into a page of the custom framework, it creates a brand new session.