troublete/task

A PHP process forking and fork handling library.

task

A PHP process forking and fork handling library., _(*1)

, _(*2)

Install

$ composer require troublete/task

Usage

<?php
require_once '/path/to/autoload.php';

use function Task\{forkTask, checkSuccess};

$pid = forkTask(function () {
    // do something that is only happening in the forked process
});

// continue work...

checkSuccess($pid); // to check if the process finished with great success

API

Functions

forkTask($taskClosure, $arguments = [], $signalHandler = null)

Function to fork off a child process. Returns the pid of the forked off process if successfull, throws an Exception if forking was not possible., _(*3)

Arguments

getProcessStatus($processId = null)

Function that returns that status of a forked child by process id. If provided process id is null it'll return 0., _(*4)

Arguments

checkSuccess($processId = null)

Function that returns based on the process status if a process already finished with great success. If the return value of this is false it does not necessarily mean that the process failed though. Since this is a non blocking process check. It is just not successfully finished at the point of the check., _(*5)

Arguments

closeTask($processId = null)

Function to close a forked process. Returns true if successfull., _(*6)

Arguments

License

GPL-2.0 © Willi Eßer, _(*7)