cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/apache/functions apache-child-terminate.xml

hholzgra Tue Apr 23 07:47:16 2002 EDT Modified files: /phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions apache-child-terminate.xml Log: fixed proto according to source changes, added notes about multithreded environments and apache.child_terminate settings and made it a bit more clear that calling apache_child_terminate doesn't terminate the script right away but kills the process only after PHP execution has finally finished Index: phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml:1.2 phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml:1.3 --- phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml:1.2 Wed Apr 17 02:36:19 2002 +++ phpdoc/en/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml Tue Apr 23 07:47:14 2002 @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ --> <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/apache.xml, last change in rev 1.20 --> <refentry id="function.apache-child-terminate"> <refnamediv> @@ -9,16 +8,28 @@ <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <methodsynopsis> - <type>string</type><methodname>apache_child_terminate</methodname> + <type>bool</type><methodname>apache_child_terminate</methodname> <void/> </methodsynopsis> <para> - <function>apache_child_terminate</function> will terminate the Apache - process executing the current PHP request once it is completed. It may be - used to terminate a process after a script with high memory consumption - has been run as memory will usually only be freed internally but not + <function>apache_child_terminate</function> will register the + Apache process executing the current PHP request for termination + once execution of PHP code it is completed. It may be used to + terminate a process after a script with high memory consumption has + been run as memory will usually only be freed internally but not given back to the operating system. </para> + <note> + <simpara> + The availability of this feature is controlled by the &php.ini; directive + <option>apache.child_terminate</option>, which is set to <literal>off</literal> + by default. + </simpara> + <simpara> + This feature is also not available on multithreaded versions of apache + like the win32 version. + </simpara> + </note> <para> See also <function>exit</function>. </para>