Re: Daemons: PHP way!

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ramender Kishore wrote: > > Eeps! Did I forget to mention that I am running my server on Windows? > I have made use of the cron daemons on UNIX, myself. But I want a similar > thing on Windows, please. Verrry sorry to have missed the vital part of > information i don't know if there's anything in apache that would work like cron, although, since everything is in there, i wouldn't be surprised if there were :). anyway, i was going to ask a related question. i'm thinking of rewriting some long running processes [they're now in C/C++] in PHP. they're like daemons in that they never die except when the computer restarts, but they don't accept socket connections. i was wondering if anyone had tried this and had any problems with it. i realize that, windows being what it is, there will probably be problems in windows. but how about in Unix? would there be problems, if a PHP program were to run indefinitely, allocating and de-allocating resources continuously? i wonder this since PHP seems to have been designed with short running programs (CGI scripts, and now embedded script programming) in mind. might there be something with PHPs memory management, garbage collection, resource reclamation that doesn't work if the PHP program runs for days, weeks, months at a time? does anyone have any experience with this? oh, and the way this is related is, Ramender, if you have no cron, and no other way to do this within the system (Task Scheduler? surely there's something like it in whatever flavor of Windows you've got running... unless you need better than minute resolution) then you could write a script that goes into a loop. in the loop, it sleeps for whatever your desired resolution is. when it wakes up, it would do whatever you need it to do. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger@kami.com http://members.xoom.com/TigerQuimpo entia non sunt multiplicanda veritas liberabit vos praetere necessitatem mene sakhet ur-seveh