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Re: [PHP3] external program execution timeout From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/31/98

> I'd like to ask how to set a timeout value for running
> an external program (either by exec() or system()) in
> PHP script?
>
> e.g. escape from system($cmd) if it doesn't give any
> output within 10 seconds

Wrap your command in a shell or perl wrapper that will do an alarm. We
can't set an alarm within the Apache module because it would interfere
with the signal handling of the web server itself.

-Rasmus 

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