PHP RFC: Your Title Here

• Version: 0.9
• Date: 2024-04-11
• Author: Robert Landers, landers.robert@gmail.com
• Status: Draft (or Under Discussion or Accepted or Declined)
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/define-negative-execution-time

Currently, a negative max execution time may be set to a negative number without warning or error. The documentation does not define what happens when a negative number is given, and this RFC deprecates passing a negative number.

Given a max_execution_time either via a php.ini setting or via set_time_limit() will result in a deprecation notice from 8.4+ and a fatal error in 9.0+. Numbers greater than 999,999,999 (31 years, 259 days) will be set to 0 (unlimited).

* Legacy code passing a negative number will receive a deprecation notice.

8.4: deprecation notice 9.0: fatal error

The potential of a fatal error while applying the configuration.

None

None

Not yet.

No change for positive integers in the bounds.

* yes: to apply a deprecation warning and fatal error in the next major version * no: to keep it undefined

PR conforming setting negative numbers to 0: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/13942

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1. the version(s) it was merged into
2. a link to the git commit(s)
3. a link to the PHP manual entry for the feature
4. a link to the language specification section (if any)

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