Re: timing out exec statements

Wouldn't this be best done inside your perl script? That way you can have it retry a few times then if it hard fails return to the PHP script. Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com> To: "php list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: [PHP] timing out exec statements > we are dropping to a perl script to process transactions, occasionally the > remote server the perl script interacts with becomes bogged, the transaction > goes into limbo, or for whatever reason the processing of that transaction hangs > (happening about 0.2% of the time). > > Is there a way to time and timeout the exec statement... just assume it has > failed, ditch the execution, and handle the failed transaction after X seconds? > > The alternative we have is to run the exec and redirect the return results to > another script so that no single exec would graing the whole master php script > to a halt. > > thoughts? > > Dave > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >