How to start and end new php procces?

Question

I am trying to use a pcntl extetntion for PHP to run some methods of my CLI class in a new thread. I wrote a small test method:

private function startProcess($data)
{
    $this->log('Start a child process');

    $pid = pcntl_fork();

    if($pid == -1)
        $this->log('Could not fork');
    elseif($pid)
        pcntl_wait($status);
    else {
        $this->process($data);
        sleep(10);
        posix_kill(posix_setsid(), SIGTERM);
    }
}

This method is called 10 times. $this->process($data); just prints the data in the console. As i understood it should start 10 processes and print my data, after it exit. But instead i get to wait 10 seconds for each message. Where i'm wrong?

Answer 1

You are waiting for each process to complete immediately after starting it. If you really want to run 10 at a time, don't wait until you started all 10.

for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
    startProcess(...);

for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
    pcntl_wait($status);

private function startProcess($data)
{
    $this->log('Start a child process');

    $pid = pcntl_fork();

    if($pid == -1)
        $this->log('Could not fork');
    elseif(!$pid) {
        $this->process($data);
        sleep(10);
        posix_kill(posix_setsid(), SIGTERM);
    }
}