On 06/14/2011 05:41 PM, Platonides wrote: > Do you want the command to be run asynchronously or not? > If you expect the status code to be returned by wfShellExec(), then the > process will obviously have finished and there's no need for the PID. > OTOH if you launch it as a background task, you will want to get the > PID, and then call pcntl_waitpid* on it to get the status code. > > *pcntl_waitpid() may not work, because $cmd is unlikely to be a direct > children of php. You could also be expecting to check it from a > different request. So you would enter into the world of killing -0 the > process to check if it's still alive. >
Yes the idea is to run the command asynchronously so we can monitor the transcode progress and kill it if it stops making progress. Calling pcntl_waitpid with pcntl_fork as Tim mentions may be the way to get it done. With the child including the pcntl_waitpid call and the parent monitoring "progress" and killing the child if need be. --michael _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
