note 96745 added to function.proc-terminate

Method described in the previous note will not work if your child process has his own childs. There is easier way to solve the problem with non-finishing child processes: <?php $descriptorspec = array( 0 => array('pipe', 'r'), // stdin is a pipe that the child will read from 1 => array('pipe', 'w'), // stdout is a pipe that the child will write to 2 => array('pipe', 'w') // stderr is a pipe the child will write to ); $proc = proc_open('bad_program', $descriptorspec, $pipes); if(!is_resource($proc)) { throw new Exception('bad_program could not be started.'); } // Get current PID $status = proc_get_status($proc); $pid = $status['pid']; // Set process group for the bunch of processes (for easy killing) posix_setpgid($pid, $pid); // Some actions // It's time to kill // Close pipes fclose($pipe[0]); fclose($pipe[1]); fclose($pipe[2]); // Send SIGKILL to all processes within group posix_kill(-$pid, 9); // Close original process proc_close($proc); ?> ---- Server IP: 78.41.111.4 Probable Submitter: 92.242.81.237 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.proc-terminate.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/96745 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96745 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/96745 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php