ID: 41003 User updated by: andy dot shellam at mailnetwork dot co dot uk Reported By: andy dot shellam at mailnetwork dot co dot uk -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: POSIX related Operating System: Unix (FreeBSD) PHP Version: 5.2.1 New Comment:
Can this be raised as a feature request, that PHP can optionally bypass the shell when launching a process, as in the Windows version? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-09 11:56:47] andy dot shellam at mailnetwork dot co dot uk Sorry that might have been a bad example, but even without a shell script (i.e. an executable) a shell process is still launched to run that process. You are correct, PHP is returning the ID of the process it launches (the shell.) But can this not be changed as it is in the Windows version, so you can (optionally) bypass the shell and launch the process directly, as that would then return the correct PID of the process itself? I.e. in Windows PHP is launching cmd.exe, in Unix it's launching sh. In the Windows version there's an option to bypass cmd.exe and launch the process directly. Can't you do the same for Unix? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-08 15:14:23] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php PHP started the ./loop.sh script, which is why its PID is returned. The other command was initiated by the shell script and PHP has no way of knowing about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-05 12:09:38] andy dot shellam at mailnetwork dot co dot uk Description: ------------ proc_get_status when run with a proc_open'd resource returns a PID that is one less than shown in ps output. E.g. to kill a process opened by proc_open, you need to add 1 to the PID returned by proc_get_status for it to work. This is because proc_get_status returns the PID of the shell that then runs the command - not the command process itself. Reproduce code: --------------- Create a bash script that loops endlessly to simulate a long-running: #!/usr/local/bin/bash while [ 0 -eq 0 ]; do let 0 done In PHP, run this script (from CLI): #!/usr/local/php/bin/php <?php $descriptorspec = array( 0 => array("pipe", "r"), // stdin is a pipe that the child will read from 1 => array("pipe", "w"), // stdout is a pipe that the child will write to 2 => array("file", "/tmp/error-output.txt", "a") // stderr is a file to write to ); $cwd = '/tmp'; $env = array('some_option' => 'aeiou'); $process = proc_open('/tmp/loop.sh', $descriptorspec, $pipes, $cwd, $env, Array("bypass_shell" => TRUE)); if (is_resource($process)) { $procinfo = proc_get_status($process); echo "Opened process ID is: " . $procinfo['pid'] . "\n"; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- Opened process ID is: 40609 (from ps output): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo ps auxwww|grep loop.sh root 40609 48.2 0.2 3036 1672 p0 R+ 1:06PM 0:05.94 /usr/local/bin/bash /tmp/loop.sh root 40608 0.0 0.1 1632 988 p0 S+ 1:06PM 0:00.00 sh -c /tmp/loop.sh Actual result: -------------- Opened process ID is: 40608 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo ps auxwww|grep loop.sh root 40609 48.2 0.2 3036 1672 p0 R+ 1:06PM 0:05.94 /usr/local/bin/bash /tmp/loop.sh root 40608 0.0 0.1 1632 988 p0 S+ 1:06PM 0:00.00 sh -c /tmp/loop.sh As you can see, the PID returned by proc_get_info is the shell that is then used to start the actual command - if you kill the shell's PID, the command carries on running. Kill the shell PID+1, and it kills both off. This is similar to http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40070, however the bypass_shell does not work on Unix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41003&edit=1