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Does set_time_limit() operate on elapsed time or CPU time?

Nov 8th, 2001 01:33
Richard Thompson, http://www.weberdev.com/Specials/Books/Professional_PHP_Programming/29632002.htm

When using "set_time_limit(secs)" the value specified for <secs> is 
elapsed time from the moment the function is called until the script 
should be killed. It has no connection with CPU time used for 
processing!