A PHP process forking and fork handling library.

$ composer require troublete/task

<?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

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.

Function that returns that status of a forked child by process id. If provided process id is null it'll return 0.

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.

Function to close a forked process. Returns true if successfull.

GPL-2.0 © Willi Eßer