Re: Re: Fork() in php?

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:43:36PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >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. What is the ticks feature and where can I read about it? The only reference I could find was in the PHP-DEV archives back in September about something you call by doing register_tick_function() . . . but nothing substantial in the way of documentation. Thanks, Frank