Have a look at zeromq. http://vimeo.com/20605470 http://zguide.zeromq.org/php:all Hope it helps. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Thomas Johnson <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > PHP noob here. I've been working on writing a script (command-line) that > forks a number of children to do various tasks. I've been using > pcntl_waitpid inside a loop to wait for the children to exit, act on the > results, and fork another copy of the child. Where I seem to be running > into trouble is in managing communication between child and parent, so that > the parent has an indication of result inside the child. > > In the past, I've done this in Perl using something along the lines of: > > open(FILEHANDLE,"-|"); > > In Perl, this has the effect of forking the process and attaching the > STDOUT of the child to FILEHANDLE on the parent. Thus, when the child > exits, I read FILEHANDLE to get the output from the child. > > Is there a similar way of achieving a similar result in PHP? Am I crazy? So > far, I have tried to communicate between the processes using sockets > (socket_create_pair). However, this seems to be a dead-end, I get a > "connection reset by peer" when I try to socket_read() from the parent. I > assume this is because the socket is closed by the exit of the child. > > Any insight or criticism is appreciated. > > -- > Thomas Johnson > ClaimLynx, Inc. <952-593-5969%20x2302> >
