How to stop program?

[shyren]

Hi All,
I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec. However when
user presses stop button in the browser or closes it this program keeps
on running on the server. How can I stop it according to user's
actions.
Thanks in advance.
Sal

[Jerry Stuckle]

shyren wrote:

Hi All,
I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec. However when
user presses stop button in the browser or closes it this program keeps
on running on the server. How can I stop it according to user's
actions.
Thanks in advance.
Sal

How can you detect the user pressed the stop button or closed the browser?
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[shyren]

I don't know how to detect that user pressed the stop button or closed
the browser. That is one part of the problem.
Sal
Jerry Stuckle a écrit :

shyren wrote:

Hi All,
I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec. However when user presses stop button in the browser or closes it this program keeps on running on the server. How can I stop it according to user's
actions.
Thanks in advance.
Sal

How can you detect the user pressed the stop button or closed the

browser?

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[Jerry Stuckle]

shyren wrote:

I don't know how to detect that user pressed the stop button or closed
the browser. That is one part of the problem.
Sal

That was more of a rhetorical question. The answer is: you can't.
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[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

shyren (sa********@yah oo.com) wrote:
: Hi All,
: I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec. However when
: user presses stop button in the browser or closes it this program keeps
: on running on the server. How can I stop it according to user's
: actions.
: Thanks in advance.
: Sal

If the c++ program is sending data to the file handle that is going back
to the browser (normally stdout), then the c++ program _might_ receive an
error when it prints to stdout if the browser is stopped, depending on how
the web server works.

If a web server detected that the file handle to the browser was closed
then I suppose some web servers might signal the cgi. The script and its
children could arrange to be interupted by that.

I would experiment with those two things on the server in question to see
if your program can detect either one.

Both cases depend on the browser closing the socket when you hit the stop
button, which is not something you control.

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[NC]

shyren wrote:

I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec.
However when user presses stop button in the browser or closes
it this program keeps on running on the server. How can I stop
it according to user's actions.

1. Make sure PHP is not ignoring user's abort commands:

ignore_user_abo rt(false);

2. Write a function that would use exec() to send a kill
signal to the C++ program. On Unix, you could do
something like this:

function kill_my_cpp_pro g() {
// call 'ps -auxww' to get the list of running processes
// find the pid for your C++ program
// call 'kill [pid]' to stop your C++ program
}

Refer to your OS manual for details of ps and kill usage.

3. Register that function to be executed at shutdown:

register_shutdo wn_function('ki ll_my_cpp_prog' );

So when a user aborts, it will trigger execution of
kill_my_cpp_pro g()...

Cheers,
NC

[Andy Hassall]

On 20 May 2005 10:07:02 -0700, "NC" <[e-mail] > wrote:

shyren wrote:

I have a php program which calls a c++ program using exec.
However when user presses stop button in the browser or closes
it this program keeps on running on the server. How can I stop
it according to user's actions.

1. Make sure PHP is not ignoring user's abort commands:

ignore_user_abo rt(false);

2. Write a function that would use exec() to send a kill
signal to the C++ program. On Unix, you could do
something like this:

function kill_my_cpp_pro g() {
// call 'ps -auxww' to get the list of running processes
// find the pid for your C++ program
// call 'kill [pid]' to stop your C++ program
}

Refer to your OS manual for details of ps and kill usage.

3. Register that function to be executed at shutdown:

register_shutdo wn_function('ki ll_my_cpp_prog' );

So when a user aborts, it will trigger execution of
kill_my_cpp_pr og()...

Changing to use proc_open so you can then use proc_terminate might also be
worth thinking about.

There's also posix_kill() for sending signals (but you still have to get the
pid first).

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[NC]

Andy Hassall wrote:

1. Make sure PHP is not ignoring user's abort commands:

2. Write a function that would use exec() to send a kill
signal to the C++ program.

3. Register that function to be executed at shutdown:
Changing to use proc_open so you can then use proc_terminate might
also be worth thinking about.

Definitely.
There's also posix_kill() for sending signals (but you still
have to get the pid first).

Also, the POSIX extension is often disabled for security purposes...

Cheers,
NC

[shyren]

According to given suggestions I wrote a program for testing. To see
whether I capture the user's abort I write to the file in tmp directory
with writing permissions set. But still I am not able to detect it. i
am new to php and more help would be highly appreciated. Thanks..
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<?php
ignore_user_abo rt(false);
function kill_my_cpp_pro g()
{
$file=fopen("tm p/num","w");
fputs($file,"nu mber2");
fclose($file);
echo "in";
}
#for($i=0;$i<10 000000;$i++)
# echo $i;
exec("sleep 5");
register_shutdo wn_function('ki ll_my_cpp_prog' );
?>

[Mike Willbanks]

shyren,

You should most likely move the register_shutdo wn_function to right
after the function kill_my_cpp_pro g as so:

<?php
ignore_user_abo ut(false);
function kill_my_cpp_pro g() {
...
}
register_shutdo wn_function('ki ll_my_cpp_prog' );
....

Because the way you have it now, it will not register the shutdown
function until the script completes.

Mike