if you want to pursue this bug further -- first try the
set_time_limit(0) solution -- and then please give specific repro steps,
it is not clear enough from your description what you are doing.
also try phpinfo(); and find out exactly which php.ini file is being
used and look for the possibility
I could not reproduce this problem. I also checked http://bugs.php.net/
and could not find any indications of a problem with max_execution_time.
I used the following program:
#!/usr/bin/php
it ran until I stopped it.
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Things to be aware of. There are two different php.ini files.
