Re: note 24573 added to function.pcntl-fork

This type of questions should go to one of the mailing lists not the notes. Your note will be removed --- kingmundi@hotmail.com wrote: > Regarding the > 'Call to undefined function: pcntl_fork() in...' > > You have to configure pcntl before building php. > It apparently only works when you make the > standalone php binary. I have built such a > standalone binary and gotten the daemon > process to work. Example... > > #!/usr/local/bin/php -q > <? > function daemonize() > { > $pid = pcntl_fork(); > if ($pid == -1) > die("could not fork"); > else if ($pid) > exit(); //we are the parent > > return $pid; > } > > if(daemonize() == 0) > { > if(daemonize() == 0) > { > //do daemon work here > //just a dummy loop to keep it running > while(1) > $x++; > } > } > ?> > > now from a command line you can run it > (if you have the file saved as daemon.php) > ./daemon.php > > and it will spawn off a new process. > > However, I can not figure out why if you call > the script from a webpage script using the > system() or exec() functions like so > > <? > system("/var/somewhere/daemon.php"); > ?> > > The page sits and sits and waits for the > function to finish before it is done loading the > page. Very different behaviour from running > it from the command line. > > You can of course manually stop loading the > page (and the daemon.php program is still > running as a process on the server). It is as > though the parent process is the apache mod > php and it is waiting on its child (the > daemon.php) except I thought doing a double > fork would prevent this. > -- > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php > http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24573 > http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24573 > http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24573 > > > -- > PHP Notes Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto <jmcastagnetto@php.net> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com