Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39992&edit=1
ID: 39992
Updated by: nikic@php.net
Reported by: nlopess@php.net
Summary: proc_terminate() leaves children of child running
Status: No Feedback
Type: Bug
Package: Program Execution
Operating System: linux
PHP Version: 6CVS-2006-12-30 (CVS)
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
@machitgarha: To clarify, you're still seeing this issue when passing an *array* command to
proc_open()? It is expected that this doesn't work when passing a *string* command, because
those are invoked through a shell.
Previous Comments:
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[2021-02-16 12:23:29] machitgarha at outlook dot com
The bug is reproducible on 7.4.15, Fedora Workstation 33. Any fixes?
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[2020-03-15 04:22:04] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
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[2020-03-06 10:38:38] nikic@php.net
I believe this should be addressed in PHP 7.4 by writing:
$proc = proc_open(
['php', '-r', 'while(1){}'],
[2 => ['redirect', 1]],
$pipes);
var_dump(proc_terminate($proc));
This will not go through a shell, and as such the created process will be terminated directly.
Please let me know if there are still issues when going through the shell-free interface.
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[2016-03-06 02:29:59] php at mattwhitlock dot name
An easy workaround...
Instead of:
$proc = proc_open('cat', ...);
Use this:
$proc = proc_open('exec cat', ...);
It tells the shell to replace its own process with the command being executed rather than forking a
child process. This way you can properly kill the command using proc_terminate($proc).
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[2014-10-17 12:12:52] alanevans+phpnet at gmail dot com
I've happened on this same issue also, though I also find that proc_get_status returns only the
pid of some /bin/sh wrapper.
I've tried on PHP 5.5 and 5.6,
Interesting to note is that the behaviour on OSX is quite easy to handle: there is no /bin/sh
wrapper process at all in that case, but on Ubuntu (currently tested on lucid), you only ever have
access to the /bin/sh proc: the process you actually started and the one that you care about is left
running.
I'm going to work around this by having child processes write their own pids to a file and use
those for signalling.
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