hi carlos.. yeah.. the pid is correct. it appears that spawning/creating a child process using pcntl_exec(foo) results in a child process that you can see running from the cmdline, but that you can't kill using "kill -9". php might allow some other function within the parent app to allow the kill signal to be received by the child, but i'm not familiar enough with php to know. if i spawn the child process using something like "system()" then i can kill the child, but i essentially have a bunch of parent processes running as well. (ie, one parent process for each child process in the pid tbl) what i really want, is the ability to spawn/create multiple external child apps, each with their own child process ID, so I can kill it from the cmdline. I'd also like to have a single parent processID in the pid tbl... thoughts/comments/etc... thanks -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Medina [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:04 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: killing a child process from pcntl_exec bruce schrieb: > Hi.. > > I fork a child process, using pcntl_exec. I see the process from the cmdline > (using pgrep 123), but I can't seem to kill the pid from the cmdline, using > "kill -9 123".. > > Is there something that I need to implement within the php test in order for > the kill signal to be effective? > > If I wait, the child eventually dies.. but I'd like to be able to kill it > from the cmdline. > > thoughts/pointers/comments... > > thanks > Hi Bruce, my ask: it is the pnum really 123? Check it out with ps -aux or ps -aix Regards Carlos Medina -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
