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[Nunez, Eddy]

Fork a child ?  pcntl function calls ??  what if you're running on a webserver,
you're going to fork a huge application just to do a "ls -l" ???

It's always good to have this knowledge on hand but ask yourself do I
really need a bazooka to kill a mouse?

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Yochum
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:28 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] system() call timeout


On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Jeffrey O. Stevison wrote:
> But if the command hangs, the only thing that the time command will  
> do is record how long the program is 'executing' or not for that  
> matter.  I need to term the offensive command and return a code that  
> this has happened.  The reason being I don't want to wait for the  
> system to time out the command as it takes too long to time out.  I  
> would know in a matter of seconds rather than the systems minutes  
> whether the command is hung or not.

Gotcha.

One method might be to use the pcntl_* functions to fork a child, exec the "ls
-la" and wait for the child to exit using a non-blocking waitpid in a loop,
killing the proc if it takes to long or moving on to other business when it
returns.  

HTH,
Andrew
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Andrew Yochum
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andrew at plexpod.com
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