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[Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline)]

Hello, 

Yes, the parent process would handle the fork, 
the reaping of the children, etc...

I've looked into pcntl in the past, never got to
far w/it. I've read a lot about forking in C/Perl, 
but never really had to code it myself.

Thanks, I'll go back and read the php.net stuff.

- Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Marscher" <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [OT] MySQL Queue


> On 4/17/07, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) <ben at projectskyline.com> wrote:
>> 1) Every x min, select the oldest time from the queue (LIMIT 1)
>> 2) DELETE that row from the queue
> 
> I assume that just one parent process would be performing this and  
> then forking a process to handle the job afterwards, right?   
> Otherwise, you'd have the chance that two processes would read the  
> queue at the same time and process the same job -- in that case, a  
> read lock could work.
> 
> I've only done forking in C.  I saw this in the php manual: "Process  
> Control support in PHP is not enabled by default. You have to compile  
> the CGI or CLI version of PHP with --enable-pcntl configuration  
> option when compiling PHP to enable Process Control support."  The  
> examples in the manual seem like a good starting point:  http:// 
> us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php
> 
> -Rob
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