Re: Replacement to ticks for signals

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Arnaud Le Blanc wrote: > Hi, > > I made a pcntl_signal_dispatch() function [1] to allow scripts that use > signals to work without ticks. > > This function just calls the pcntl's tick handler on-demand so that all signal > handler functions are called if there are pending signals. > > It does not allow the signal handlers to be called at any time like with > ticks, but allows things like this: > > while (do_something()) { > /* main loop */ > pcntl_signal_dispatch(); > } > > or > > while (pcntl_signal_dispatch() && do_something()) { > /* main loop */ > } Does the function block if there are no pending signals? If not, I think we should make that an option. regards, Derick -- HEAD before 5_3!: http://tinyurl.com/6d2esb http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org