Re: Fork() in php?

From: "spencer 'sporty' portee" <sportee@mail.communityconnect.com> To: "Jason Greene" <jason@inetgurus.net> Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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? Theres some things you shouldn't do in a webserver process : ) Yes there would be possibilities of problems for a webserver SAPI module. The idea, though, is that it would be targeted to the cgi SAPI. >Threading might be nicer, but the same argumenet might hold. Yes, and actually I was thinking about that. This adds a very large level of complexity, and would most likely require some special hooks into Zend. (The capibility to create a thread bound to a php function, would be tricky) > But this is assuming that php is a webserver language, i.e. php-gtk I am thinking of php starting to become a little bit more : ) -Jason > 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 > >