Possible execution time bug?

Hi all, I've got an interesting situation and I'm trying to figure out if I'm going nuts or not. I have a number of command line scripts which I am running via scheduled tasks on Windows 2000 ... these scripts are required to run for long periods of time - so I have set the maximum execution time to 0 so that they will never time out. All this is fine and I can get the scripts to run for as long as I want (PHPINFO confirms the settings). But - I'm having problems when I try to have a script that controls the running of these other scripts. The easiest way I found to get the scripts to run was to include them ... but on the second include of a long time - the script exits with a message saying that the maximum execution time of 30 seconds has been breached. This can be got around using the set_time_limit function - but surely I shouldn't have to!! To give you an example: include("auto118.php"); //runs a script for 30 minutes include("auto1182.php"); //attempts to run another script for 30 minutes This will bomb out during the execution of auto1182.php with the max time error. But: include('auto118.php'); set_time_limit(10000000000); include('auto1182.php'); will work. I should add that this isn't limited to command line scripts - I've tried this via apache and get the same problems. Always with the second large included file. What's weird is that I also include a number of class files at the top of the script and these are never affected by this problem. Is this a bug? Or am I just mis-understanding the nature of the max_execution_time and includes? I would really appreciate any insight anyone can give. Please Help!! Michael.

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