Re: process creation

bruce wrote: > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app > terminates? Generally yes, but it's partially up to the spawned process to completely detach itself. > It appears that the spawning/forking functions might work, but the > child apps would be in a zombie status, and couldn't be killed by an > external program. I'm not sure, but I think there's something wrong if you can't kill them with a -9. > Basically, I'd like to create a bunch of test apps/processes, and then > to be able to kill them by a separate process if the apps take too > long to run.. Why not put a timer in each individual process? /Per Jessen, Zürich