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Diffstat (limited to 'phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php')
| -rw-r--r-- | phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php b/phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php index 72fda91dd0..58c4a96f8e 100644 --- a/phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php +++ b/phpBB/includes/cron/task/task.php @@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ interface phpbb_cron_task /** * Returns whether this cron task can be run in shutdown function. * + * By the time shutdown sequence invokes a particular piece of code, + * resources that that code requires may already be released. + * If so, a particular cron task may be marked shutdown function- + * unsafe, and it will be executed in normal program flow. + * + * Generally speaking cron tasks should start off as shutdown function- + * safe, and only be marked shutdown function-unsafe if a problem + * is discovered. + * * @return bool */ public function is_shutdown_function_safe(); |