Aborting and resuming a Symfony Console command

Question

I have a Symfony Console command that iterates over a potentially big collection of items and does a task with each of them. Since the collection can be big, the co

Answer 1

This is what worked for me. You need to call pcntl_signal_dispatch before the signal handlers are actually executed. Without it, all tasks will finish first.

shouldStop = false;

        foreach ( $this->tasks as $task )
        {
            pcntl_signal_dispatch();
            if ( $this->shouldStop ) break; 
            $task->execute();
        }

        $this->showSomeStats($output);
    }

    public function stopCommand()
    {
        $this->shouldStop = true;
    }
}