NYCPHP Meetup

[Freedman, Tom S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: max goldberg [mailto:max at idsociety.com]
[snip!]
> if ($is_daemon == true) {
>   $waitpid_status = null;
>   echo "[ MASTER ] Waiting For Children to Die!\n";
>   pcntl_waitpid (-1, &$waitpid_status, WUNTRACED);
>   echo "[ MASTER ] My Children are dead!\n";
[snip!]
> Obviously the master is only waiting for the first child to die out 
> before it responds
> that they are all done.I have a few options, one of which is keep an 
> array of the pid's
> of each fork and then loop and wait for each of them.I was just 
> wondering if it was
> possible to have it wait for any and all forked processes with one 
> command. Does
> anyone have any experience with this?

There really isn't any other way to do it than to keep track of all your
child PIDs and test for them all to return.  pcntl_waitpid(-1, $foo), as you
say, returns once any child exits.

> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the long mail!
> -Max

Hey, long mails mean less time spend asking for more info! :-)

-Tom


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