It's a bug. spoke to Rasmus at some length about just before i posted it in the bug report.
The online help page is inaccurate in describing the full functionality of the function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php REGISTER_SHUTDOWN_FUNCTION() is suppose to kick-off when any one of the following things happen -- Exit, Error, TIMEOUT or User Abort. According to Rasmus, the TIMEOUT functionality of this function works fine under Linux -- however, it's not working under Win32 ! There apparently is another bug with this function -- you are suppose to be able to call more than one REGISTER_SHUTDOWN_FUNCTION(), and they are suppose to executed in-order... some people are reporting that only the first encountered REGISTER_SHUTDOWN_FUNCTION() is executed, then the script exits. Someone needs to go through this function, pretty thoroughly, and get it working correctly. Being able to run code on a timeout, user-abort or error is critical. Jason "Jason Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm posting this here to give this BUG attention. It's a pretty serious one > for Win32 users, and it would be great if it could be fixed *very > quickly* -- I posted this in the Bug Reports on PHP.net on May 27th, 2002. > > Here's the link: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17461 > > I need to use this function to perform certain *required* tasks on a > Timeout -- however (and please read the Bug Report, before replying) the > Timeout functionality of this function DOES NOT work on Win32 builds. > > If your a C/C++ / PHP contributor and have a moment to look into this -- it > would be great -- I would love to see this fixed in release 4.2.4 !!! > > Thanks > Jason > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
