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..

I\'d like to have a more e

Answer 1

Fork in foreach:

0) {}'));//protect against zombie children
foreach ($tasks as $v)
        {if (($pid=pcntl_fork())===-1)
            {//...
             continue;
            }
         else if ($pid===0)
              {ob_start();//prevent output to main process
               register_shutdown_function(create_function('$pars', 'ob_end_clean();posix_kill(posix_getppid(), SIGUSR1);posix_kill(getmypid(), SIGKILL);'), array());//to kill self before exit();, or else the resource shared with parent will be closed
               //...
               exit();//avoid foreach loop in child process
              }
        }
?>