[PHP] timing out exec statements

we are dropping to a perl script to process transactions, occasionally the remote server the perl script interacts with becomes bogged, the transaction goes into limbo, or for whatever reason the processing of that transaction hangs (happening about 0.2% of the time). Is there a way to time and

Re: [PHP] timing out exec statements

: [PHP] timing out exec statements we are dropping to a perl script to process transactions, occasionally the remote server the perl script interacts with becomes bogged, the transaction goes into limbo, or for whatever reason the processing of that transaction hangs (happening about 0.2