note 87828 modified in function.posix-kill by danbrown

A little recursive function to kill a process and his childs. it works fine for me and I don't have find something else to do it. It's a mix of various scripts I've found. <?php function killProcessAndChilds($pid,$signal) { exec("ps -ef| awk '\$3 == '$pid' { print \$2 }'", $output, $ret); if($ret) return 'you need ps, grep, and awk'; while(list(,$t) = each($output)) { if ( $t != $pid ) { killProcessAndChilds($t,$signal); } } //echo "killing ".$pid."\n"; posix_kill($pid, 9); } ?> --was-- A little recursive function to kill a process and his childs. it works fine for me and I don't have find something else to do it. It's a mix of various scripts I've found. function killProcessAndChilds($pid,$signal) { exec("ps -ef| awk '\$3 == '$pid' { print \$2 }'", $output, $ret); if($ret) return 'you need ps, grep, and awk'; while(list(,$t) = each($output)) { if ( $t != $pid ) { killProcessAndChilds($t,$signal); } } //echo "killing ".$pid."\n"; posix_kill($pid, 9); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.posix-kill.php