Hello Chris,
Ok, makes sense.
I tried having the child create its own DB connection (object)
which seems to work all right, until it executes the query,
at which point it says the DB is gone.
I'm trying something a bit different now, using two files, parent
and child and then using the queue to send messages back in forth,
such as, the childs PID (so the parent could kill it if it runs to long)
and the return value of the child (success of failure).
This way eliminates the fork and the reaping, as the child's just exit(0)
when they are done, or worse (haven't coded this yet), the parent can
kill them (since it tracks the pids and job_ids).
Truthfully, I dont know what the easiest way to do this is, nor
can I find any good documentation on IPC and php.
- Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "csnyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk@lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] IPC Problems
Hi Ben,
It's been a couple years since I had to deal with forking processes
and such, so I'm not up to debugging your code. But one thing that
might help you simplify is to remember that, at the time of the fork,
the child's environment is the same as the parent's.
If the parent loads the job record from the database into an array or
object named $job, and then forks, the child will have its own copy of
$job and can just go to work on it.
IIRC the database connection is a special case because it's a resource
-- same goes for file pointers. Nevertheless, the child should have
access to the username and password (in $dbSet?) to be able to make
it's own connection to the db.
--
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/
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