Description: ------------ I tested this with my development code and something seemed odd as PHP started to go <defunct> on me. System_Daemon::start(); System_Daemon::restart(); System_Daemon::stop(); Using the restart() produced multiple PHP <defunct> items. Test script: --------------- #!/usr/local/bin/php -q <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); // Start System Daemon (PEAR) require_once "Daemon.php"; // Allowed arguments & their defaults $runmode = array( "no-daemon" => true, "help" => false, "write-initd" => false ); // Options $options = array( 'appName' => 'queue_test', 'appDir' => dirname(__FILE__), 'sysMaxExecutionTime' => '0', 'sysMaxInputTime' => '0', 'sysMemoryLimit' => '1024M' ); System_Daemon::setOptions($options); // Overrule the signal handler with any function System_Daemon::setSigHandler(SIGCONT, array("System_Daemon", "defaultSigHandler")); System_Daemon::start(); System_Daemon::restart(); System_Daemon::stop(); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I expected to see the Ssystem_Daemon::restart(); produce the following output: restarting queue_test daemon Actual result: -------------- /usr/local/bin/php -q ./otwebsoft_queue_test.php [otwebsoft_queue] <defunct>

I've rerun the test like this: http://trac.phpjs.org/projects/system_daemon/browser/trunk/examples/bug_test_b.php Watched the ps auxf, and finally killed it with: killall -9 bug_test_b.php But there weren't multiple zombie processes. I do get an occasional <defunct> but I think that is to be expected because a new child is spawned and then the parent dies. Anyway it's only there for a short while & then disappears. I was however able to reproduce this with an older version. If your defuncs are stacking up that really sounds like an old bug. In that case could you supply me with your: cat System/Daemon.php |grep GLOBAL And could you show me how you start the daemon from the commandline? On a sidenote: A stop() is not required as restart() will actually do this (quite ugly): die(exec(join(' ', $GLOBALS['argv']) . ' > /dev/null &')); So basically it kills the current process just before executing another one.

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