On 7/23/07, Orson Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looking around php.net I found this http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php You can do a standard fork() using php. Check it out. Orson
If you don't care about the child process after it is finished, you must do a pcntl_signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN); before the fork. This will make the parent process ignore any signal sent back by a dying child. When the child process sees that it's kill signal was either processed or ignored, it dies quietly. This prevents what is known as zombie or orphan processes in *nix, which is a dead child process that has been shunned by its parent. If you want to track the process of the child process, leave out the pcntl_signal and use pcntl_waitpid after the fork. This is a very, very common occurance in the *nix world. For example, the apache server forks a child process for every request on its socket(s). And I don't care what anyone says (about XP or Vista), Windows still sucks when it comes to forking any kind of process. My humble $.02. -- Scott Hill "May you solve interesting problems" - Author Unknown "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
