On May 25, 2020 2:35:54 PM UTC, Shivanand Sharma <shivanand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Ashley: This is the first ever time I've joined an NNTP list for >help. >I'm using Gmail and learning as I go. > >Thanks Chris. Yes it's a PCRE bug. What I'm trying to find out is how >to >recover from such a hang and continue processing since this will be run >in >the background and as per schedule. Don't want one rogue file to hang >the >app. Are there any PHP core functions to take notice of this and throw >exception and recover somehow? Or perhaps there's an alernative >approach >for execution of this specific preg_match statetment? Thanks. > >Regards, >Shivanand Sharma Are you sure it's a bug? What have you tried to limit the cause? Have you tried a reduced regex or a smaller image? As an alternative, have you looked at any alternatives to get the image Meta information? Thanks, Ash