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A library to run a command in the background, it will return the process's pid, and get it's is running status anytime in the another process, and can be stoped anytime.

Navigation

• Installation
• Usage
  • Run a script in background
  • Create process from known pid ($pid)

Installation

Using composer:

composer require graftype/nohup

Usage

Run a script in background

use graftype\nohup;

$process = Nohup::run('sleep 5');

It will be running in the background for 5 seconds.

But, it can be stoped any time:

//...
$process->stop();

It stoped now!

Get the pid : $process->getPid(), it will return the real pid in both window and *inx system.

Get it's running status with the function $process->isRunning():

use graftype\nohup\Nohup;

$process = Nohup::run('sleep 5');
while ($process->isRunning()) {
    echo '.';
    sleep(1);
}
echo "Done.\n";

output: .....Done.

Create process from known pid ($pid)

use graftype\nohup\Process;

$process = Process::loadFromPid($pid);  
// or
$process = new Process($pid); 

if ($process->isRunning()) {
    $process->stop();
}

Method:

Nohup::run($commandLine, $outputFile, $errorFile)

• $commandLine: string, the command will be run.
• $outputFile: string, the file path where to save output content.
• $errlogFile: string, the file path where to save error message.