Waynn Lue wrote:
> I actually tried this in the meantime:
>
> $pid = pcntl_fork();
> if ($pid == -1) {
> die("could not fork");
> } else if ($pid) {
> // parent, return the child pid
> echo "child pid $pid waiting\n";
> pcntl_waitpid($pid, $status);
> if (pcntl_wifexited($status)) {
> echo "finished [$status] waiting\n";
> return;
> } else {
> echo "ERROR\n";
> }
>
I think your waitpid() is in the wrong place, and at least you need use
WNOHANG - unless you specifically want to wait for each child to finish
before starting another one.
> But it still has the same problem, and I'm also trying to avoid
> pcntl_wait or pcntl_waitpid at all because I still want to do it
> asynchronously.
pcntl_wait(WNOHANG) will make everything work asynchronously.
/Per
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