> Personally, I think having an alarm (timeout) function is a really good
> idea.
>
> Setting a timer, and then being able to jump from whatever you are doing if
> it is taking too long is something that has helped me do some really neat
> stuff in C and Perl... and I was a little dissapointed when I learned PHP
> didn't have.
Although I've been able to solve my current problem with fsockopen(), I
think an alarm function would be nice to have for other things. Perl is
open-source, right? Probably the best way to implement this in PHP would be
to look at how Perl is doing it and go from there.
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Jason Sims
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