Re: Fork() in php?

Playing devil's advocate here. If php forked, that would mean that apache forked off a child that forked off a child. So if the child at the end of the chain freezes, won't that confuse apache? Threading might be nicer, but the same argumenet might hold. But this is assuming that php is a webserver language, i.e. php-gtk On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:10:00AM -0500, Jason Greene wrote: > What do you guys think about having fork, waitpid, and signal handling available in php? > I wrote a few simple fork test functions, and everything seemed to work fine. > > I am thinking that with sockets, shm, signals, and fork capability, there could > be the possibility of someone writing daemons in php : ) > > Can anyone think of possible problems that could occur in supporting this functionality? > If it were to be added, where should it be added? IMO this type of thing probably > shouldn't exist in ext/standard. > > Thanks, > -Jason > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >