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    pcntl_waitpid

    (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

    pcntl_waitpid — Waits on or returns the status of a forked child

    Description

    int pcntl_waitpid ( int $pid , int &$status [, int $options = 0 ] )

    Suspends execution of the current process until a child as specified by the pid argument has exited, or until a signal is delivered whose action is to terminate the current process or to call a signal handling function.

    If a child as requested by pid has already exited by the time of the call (a so-called "zombie" process), the function returns immediately. Any system resources used by the child are freed. Please see your system's waitpid(2) man page for specific details as to how waitpid works on your system.

    Parameters

    pid

    The value of pid can be one of the following:

    possible values for pid
    < -1 wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid.
    -1 wait for any child process; this is the same behaviour that the wait function exhibits.
    0 wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to that of the calling process.
    > 0 wait for the child whose process ID is equal to the value of pid.

    Note:

    Specifying -1 as the pid is equivalent to the functionality pcntl_wait() provides (minus options).

    status

    pcntl_waitpid() will store status information in the status parameter which can be evaluated using the following functions: pcntl_wifexited(), pcntl_wifstopped(), pcntl_wifsignaled(), pcntl_wexitstatus(), pcntl_wtermsig() and pcntl_wstopsig().

    options

    The value of options is the value of zero or more of the following two global constants OR'ed together:

    possible values for options
    WNOHANG return immediately if no child has exited.
    WUNTRACED return for children which are stopped, and whose status has not been reported.

    Return Values

    pcntl_waitpid() returns the process ID of the child which exited, -1 on error or zero if WNOHANG was used and no child was available

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    fx4084 at gmail dot com
    1 year ago
    <?php
    $childs     = array();

    // Fork some process.
    for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
            $pid = pcntl_fork();
        if(    $pid == -1)
            die(    'Could not fork');

        if (    $pid) {
            echo     "parent \n";
                $childs[] = $pid;
        } else {
                // Sleep $i+1 (s). The child process can get this parameters($i).
                sleep($i+1);
           
                // The child process needed to end the loop.
                exit();
        }
    }

    while(    count($childs) > 0) {
        foreach(    $childs as $key => $pid) {
                $res = pcntl_waitpid($pid, $status, WNOHANG);
           
                // If the process has already exited
                if($res == -1 || $res > 0)
                unset(    $childs[$key]);
        }
       
            sleep(1);
    }
    ?>
    saguto dot l7cc at gmail dot com
    8 years ago
    please note, if you using configure option --enable-sigchild(Enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler) when complie php(under linux 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.centos.plus and php 5.2.5 as I know), pcntl_waitpid and pcntl_wait in php script would never return the child pid, because the build in handle get it first.
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