note 115495 added to function.include

In PHP 4, for some reason, in certain circumstances, include() may take an extremely long time (several minutes) to exit from the included script and return to the including script. I have observed this behavior on a FreeBSD server with PHP 4.4.5, but have not been able to pinpoint the exact way to reproduce this, and I don't know if this behavior is specific to the setup my script runs in. Anyway, in case anyone else runs into this problem, the solution is simple: omit any parentheses around the included script name. ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 95.97.170.76 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/115495 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115495 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/115495 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php