php forking issue

Question

I have the following test php to do a fork/spawn process, where the test also attempts to kill the child process (zombie) after is completes..

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Answer 1

Just use pcntl_wait(). There's no need to see if the child process has finished, just call pcntl_wait() and block until the child is reaped.

Avoid passing WNOHANG so that your parent process will sit and wait for a child to finish.

You can replace the reaping code you've written (starting at line 58 '$q=true;' of your example) with this:

$status = null;

do {
    // You can use $status with pcntl_wifexited(), pcntl_wifstopped(),
    // pcntl_wifsignaled(), pcntl_wexitstatus(), pcntl_wtermsig() and
    // pcntl_wstopsig() if you need to.

    $pid = pcntl_wait($status);

} while ($pid > 0);