Re: [PATCH] Raise warning first on "Maximum execution time exceeded"

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 15:51 +0100, troels knak-nielsen wrote: > We log all errors that happens in our production environment, but as > fatal errors can't be handled from within php, we end up with little > information to go on for further debugging. I'm not very familiar with > the php internals code, but I managed to throw in a hack that appears > to work. In the handler function for timeouts (zend_timeout), I raise > a WARNING, sleep for 1 second and then resume normal behavior, which > results in a fatal error. This gives userland code 1 second to log the > error somewhere, which should be sufficient for debugging. A one second delay is no option there. And what actually happens is that the warning triggers your custom error handler. After that it sleeps then it dies. This also creates a "nice" way to extend the script runtime after the timeout occurred. aka. making the timeout useless for many scenarios it was meant for. johannes