Re: Fork() in php?

On 2001-05-11 16:10:00, "Jason Greene" <jason@inetgurus.net> 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 : ) I would like to use this functionality to fork an apache request so that the parent can serve up some content while the child carries on with some number-crunching or other time consuming task. I know that there might be some bad interactions with apache if you fork, but if you allow PHP to spot that it forked and call _exit() instead of returning into the SAPI, you should be OK? --Wez.