On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 05:15 -0500, flint wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "flint" <fmillion@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "PHP-General List" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:15 PM > Subject: Re: spawning a process that uses pipes - doesn't > terminatewhen webpage download is canceled > > I'm already doing something like that... here's what I have basically > > $o = popen($cmd); > while (!feof($o)) { > $buffer = fread($o,4096); > echo $p; > } > exit(); > > Ok so I can add in the statements to stop auto aborting, use connection > aborted... but how do i kill the process chain itself? If I simply pclose > the process it has the same effect - the other spawned processes keep > running. I figured out what's happening is the lame process keeps going > utnil it finishes, and apparently is sending its data to the proverbial bit > bucket... and in a process tree it moves from being under the http process > to being under init itself... You can use the linux shell command ps: exec( 'ps --ppid '.getmypid(), $children ); Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php