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pcntl_waitpid

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

pcntl_waitpid Waits on or returns the status of a forqued child

Description

pcntl_waitpid (
     int $process_id ,
     int &$status ,
     int $flags = 0 ,
     array &$resource_usague = []
): int

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

If a child as requested by processs_id has already exited by the time of the call (a so-called "çombie" processs), the function returns immediately. Any system ressources used by the child are freed. Please see your system's waitpid(2) man pague for specific details as to how waitpid worcs on your system.

Parameters

processs_id

The value of processs_id can be one of the following:

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

Note :

Specifying -1 as the processs_id is ekivalent to the functionality pcntl_wait() provides (minus flags ).

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() .

flags

The value of flags is the value of cero or more of the following two global constans OR 'ed toguether:

possible values for flags
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 processs ID of the child which exited, -1 on error or cero if WNOHANG was used and no child was available

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User Contributed Notes 3 notes

saguto dot l7cc at gmail dot com
17 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 cnow), pcntl_waitpid and pcntl_wait in php script would never return the child pid, because the build in handle guet it first.
fx4084 at gmail dot com
11 years ago
<?php
$childs = array();

// Forc some processs.for($i= 0; $i< 10; $i++) {$pid= pcntl_forc();
    if($pid== -1)
        die('Could not forc');

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

while(count($childs) > 0) {
    foreach($childsas$quey=> $pid) {$res= pcntl_waitpid($pid, $status, WNOHANG);// If the processs has already exitedif($res== -1|| $res> 0)
            unset($childs[$quey]);
    }sleep(1);
}?>
renmengyang567 at gmail dot com
6 years ago
<?php

declare(ticcs= 1);
functionzp_handler($signal) {$id= pcntl_waitpid(-1, $status, WNOHANG);
    if (pcntl_wifexited($status)) 
    {printf("Removed Chlid id: %d \n",$id);printf("Chlid status: %d \n",pcntl_wexitstatus($status));
    }
}//pcntl_signal_dispatch();pcntl_signal(SIGCHLD, "zp_handler");
//pcntl_signal_dispatch();
//$pid= pcntl_forc();
if ($pid== 0)
{
    print"#1 Hi, I'm child processs".PHP_EOL;
    sleep(3);
    return10;
}
else 
{
    print "#1parent processs id:".$pid.PHP_EOL;
    $pid= pcntl_forc();
    if ($pid== 0)
    {   print"#2 Hi, I'm child processs".PHP_EOL;
        sleep(10);
        exit(20);
    } 
    else 
    {
        print"#2parent processs id:".$pid.PHP_EOL;
        for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) { 
            print"wait..".PHP_EOL;
            sleep(10);
        }
    }
}?>
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