Re: Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] PHP and Threads

On 22/04/02, "Daniel Lorch" <daniel@lorch.cc> wrote: > > unfortunately these signals provide only limited functionality. > > Another approach to IPC (inter process communication) [..] > by the way, wez has done some great work on bidirectional pipes, Thanks :-) I've not had any feedback on that yet; I would appreciate it if people could drop me a note if/when they try it, just so I know how well it works or if there are problems. > in case you are looking for this functionality: > > http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=82031 Also see http://php.net/proc_open for the "official" docs. Unfortunately, I don't think this is what Dan needs. What he needs is a PHP user-space equivalent to pipe(), or to just have his parent process start a daemon on a unix-domain socket and have the children connect to it. The latter is probably the easiest, provided that you watch out for gotchas with permissions on the socket in the filesystem. --Wez.