You mean the shutdown function is called and 1 nanosecond later PHP crashes so you don't have time to do anything?
~Hannes On 9 March 2011 15:27, David Muir <davidkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, I think I worded that poorly. > A function registered with register_shutdown_function does execute when > the max_execution_time is exceeded. > What it doesn't let you do is to recover in the same way an error > handler would let you. > > David > > On 09/03/11 22:56, Hannes Landeholm wrote: > > I second making time limit reached catchable. All non catchable fatal > errors > > are a problem for me. I need to handle problems gracefully to ensure the > > stability of production systems instead of PHP just killing itself > without > > warning. I just reported a similar issue: > > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54195 > > > > A simple way to implement this would be to register a function that would > be > > called N seconds before the script would timeout. > > > > register_timeout_handler(2, function() { die("PHP timed out."); }); > > > > It would be called just as a shutdown function - in fact I'd like to use > the > > same function as my shutdown function and get the error with > > error_get_last(). Of course set_time_limit(0) could be used in this > function > > to prevent the timeout of the timeout handler. This does not "prevent" > > timeout since set_time_limit could have been called by the script before > the > > timeout anyway. > > > > On that note I also miss a function which returns the time the script can > > keep running for. If that calculate needs to be calculated to implemented > to > > implement this, why not make the value available to the PHP script? > > > > ~Hannes > > > > On 9 March 2011 02:30, David Muir <davidkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Although it doesn't let you recover from a timeout, you could use > >> register_shutdown_function to gracefully exit after a fatal error. > >> > >> register_shutdown_function(function(){ > >> $error = error_get_last(); > >> if($error && $error['type'] === E_ERROR){ > >> echo 'PHAIL! Oh noes, something went wrong!'; > >> // do whatever else you need to do before quitting > >> } > >> }); > >> > >> Cheers, > >> David > >> > >> On 08/03/11 22:39, Pierre Joye wrote: > >>> hi, > >>> > >>> is not the goal of this setting to prevent that a script runs longer > >>> than a given time? A catchable error will prevent that to happen. > >>> > >>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> > >> wrote: > >>>> Could set_time_limit() be changed in such a way that it triggers a > >>>> catchable fatal error instead of a fatal error? Thanks! > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal > >> Consultant > >>>> http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ > >> http://thePHP.cc/ > >>>> -- > >>>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > >>>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >