note 96744 deleted from function.proc-terminate by danbrown

Note Submitter: mast at imast.ru ---- 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); ?>