ID:               22452
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      mikan at playcollective dot com
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Feedback
 Bug Type:         Scripting Engine problem
 Operating System: Linux (RedHat 7.2)
 PHP Version:      4.3.0
 New Comment:

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip




Previous Comments:
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[2003-02-27 05:50:07] mikan at playcollective dot com

I've been developping a daemon-script that runs in the background,
after being spawned from the parent script.

i use an:

//  we are parent. spawn child and exit.
    $sock = fsockopen (getenv("SERVER_NAME"), 80);
    if(!$sock){
      echo "ERROR: $errstr ($errno)\n";
    } else {
      if(socket_set_blocking($sock, false)){
        fputs($sock, "GET ".getenv("REQUEST_URI")."?child=1
HTTP/1.1\n");
        fputs($sock, "Host: ".getenv("SERVER_NAME")." \n");
        fputs($sock, "Connection: close\n\n");
        fclose($sock);
    } else {
      echo "ERROR: blocking socket. execution halted.\n";
      exit();
    }
  }

to spawn the child process (fork is not supported on the system this
script is developed for). this code essentially opens a non-blocking
socket to itself, with the variable child=1, and exits. the child
process is now running.

this child process starts with:

  set_time_limit (0);
  ignore_user_abort(true);

to be able to run "forever"...
after this it goes into an eternal while loop.

now, the problem is the following: if nothing happens within the loop
(e.g. no output is produced, the script only checks and sleeps) the
script halts (but doesn't die/exit) after exactly 300 seconds. the
process still exists in the process list on the server.

if the script produces an non-fatal error within every 300 seconds, it
continues running happily for hours and hours and hours.

i tried outputting a "boo" message using echo "boo"; every ten seconds,
and that didn't seem to work. i tried flushing after echoing, that
didn't work either. now i free a mysql-result that doesn't exist, and
that DOES work!



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