Re: Time limit on recursive procedure?

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:04:20 +0200, per@computer.org (Per Jessen) wrote: >Clancy wrote: > >> I have a recursive procedure, and I set the time limit each time I >> enter it: >> >> function rec_scan($directory, ......) >> { >> set_time_limit (1); >> >> if (is_dir($new_file)) >> { >> rec_scan ($new_file, ....) >> } >> >> } >> >> >> The way I read the manual, the timer should be reset each time I call >> rec_scanl, > >You keep calling it so as long as the execution time between each call >is < 1 second, your script will keep going. > >/Per Thanks. That's what I thought. I'm using it to back up my working directory to another drive, and a 3 second limit wasn't long enough, so one of the directories must take longer than I expected to copy.