Re: Re: Fork() in php?

> >Not really, the parent has to somehow call wait() on the child, otherwise > >you'd get zombie processes... > >Generally, implementing that sort of stuff within the Apache framework is a > >bit of asking for trouble :I > > Anyway, PHP really lacks of real multi-threading capabilities. Things like > database connection pooling, (non-HTTP) server request handling, and GUI > event processing could be properly implemented in PHP with multi-threading > capabilities like the way it is done in Java, Perl, Python, etc. but can't > be done right in PHP because it lacks multi-threading support. > > Any plans to add multi-threading capabilities to PHP? Nope, but you can use the ticks feature to do some of this. -Rasmus