Re: Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processe s

That's basically what happens in forking and threading. More "PHP.EXE" processes appear, even on *nix. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Buerer" <david@pladesigns.com> To: "'Evan Nemerson'" <evan@coeus-group.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:35 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processe s > I thought about this and it's actually not such a bad idea. I struggle with > it a little though because it seems like kind of a brute force method. I'll > end up with an awful lot of PHP.EXE processes going at the same time. > Although it would get the job done, I'm not certain that it's the right > solution. I was hoping for something a little more elegant. I really like > the pcntl_xxx() functions, but they are only available on UNIX platforms. > And no, UNIX is not an option for this client...they are on Windows and > that's where they're going to stay. > > Anyone else have any other ideas? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Evan Nemerson [mailto:evan@coeus-group.com] > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:47 PM > To: David Buerer; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processe s > > > Either exec(), system(), or one of the functions like them (check the > manual) > doesn't wait for anything to return- it just begins executing a new process > and sends it on its way. Perhaps you could use this and just make whatever > you want to do a seperate file? > > > > On Monday 22 July 2002 15:09 pm, David Buerer wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. But HOW do I do it? > > > > i.e. I'm sitting in my accept connectinos loop in the chat daemon > > > > While(true) > > { > > //waitforenwconnection > > $new_connection_id=socket_accept(); > > > > //got a new connection, go process it > > go_do_this_in_a_new_thread($new_connection_id); > > } > > > > What do I put in place of go_do_this_in_a_new_thread()???? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Demitrious S. Kelly [mailto:apokalyptik@apokalyptik.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:01 PM > > To: 'David Buerer'; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate > > processes > > > > > > Yes. Write a daemon which listens on a socket and manages the > > communications it gets from the satellite scripts and works the > > database for them... > > > > The scripts send off data, and process replies. They don't do the > > heavy work... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Buerer [mailto:david@pladesigns.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:30 PM > > To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate > > processes > > > > How to I inovoke a new Thread from the middle of a PHP script? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Maine [mailto:pmaine@austin.rr.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:08 AM > > To: David Buerer; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate > > processes > > > > > > You can use threads with NT to accomplish what you are asking. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Buerer [mailto:david@pladesigns.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:29 AM > > To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' > > Subject: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate > > processes > > > > > > I've got effectivly a glorified chat server which upon the arrival of > > a message thorugh a socket connection goes off and runs a bunch of > > database processed. My questions is this: How can I seperate the > > database processing into a seperate processor process? I really don't > > want the chat server to have to wait until after the database > > processing is done to go intercept and process another request--this > > just doesn't seem right. I want the chat server process to be able to > > deal with getting and receiving messages, and another process to deal > > with the database processing. That way if one of the processes get's > > slow, the other isn't affected. Something like the fork command would > > work really well, but fork doesn't exist in NT. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > I'm running Windows NT4.0 sp6a > > Apache Server 1.3.xx > > MySQL > > and of course, PHP 4.2.1 > > -- > Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. > > Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy > >