On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A simple question (or so I thought). > > Does php allow an app to create/start a process/application that can > continue to run on its own, after the initiating program/app terminates? > > It appears that the spawning/forking functions might work, but the child > apps would be in a zombie status, and couldn't be killed by an external > program. > > Basically, I'd like to create a bunch of test apps/processes, and then to > be > able to kill them by a separate process if the apps take too long to run.. > > So.. thoughts/comments would be appreciated! > > thanks > > > Check out the user comments under this function: http://php.net/ignore_user_abort -- Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas alexandre@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://Alexandre.Gaigalas.Net
