Terminating zombie child processes forked from socket server

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I am well aware that PHP might not have been the best choice in this case for a socket server. Please refrain from suggesting differen

Answer 1

I know only too well how hard you have to search for a solution to the problem of zombie processes. My concern with potentially having hundreds or thousands of them was (rightly or wrongly as I don't know if this would actualy be a problem) running out of inodes, as all hell can break loose when that happens.

If only the pcntl_fork() manual page linked to posix-setsid() many of us would have discovered the solution was so simple years ago.