bruce wrote: > Hi Nathan/Torok... > > Hey guys... got a bit of a question. > > I'm playing around with the php/for/pcntl_exec functions and I've got > a process that spawns off a bunch of child processes. Unfortunately, > I'm getting to where I have 100's of zombie child processes that I can > see from the linux/processTBL. > > I don't want to have my master loop do a waitpid() call, as it would > block on the wait for one of the child processes to exit. No, it wouldn't - just use WNOHANG: pcntl_waitpid( -1, $status, WNOHANG ); /Per Jessen -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.9°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php