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[Brian]

That would merely start a non-running instance of the same script, as opposed 
to killing the one that is looping on the server.

I'm looking into Hans' suggestion of

>You could have PHP kill itself in various way, if this helps:

>http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.posix.php
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php

I have to look into how PHP was compiled and if these will be possible.  Back 
to the limits of an embedded system -- can't compile anything.

Brian


On Friday 20 December 2002 10:48 am, FB` wrote:
> How about passing the $run variable for the while loop (as someone else
> mentioned) through the browser, via get?
>
> so you could go to
> http://tinyembedded/control.php?run=true
> or
> http://tinyembedded/control.php?run=false
> to start and stop, respectively...
>
> FB`
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian" <brian at preston-campbell.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] loop
>
> > The script will specifically not time out.  I don't want it to.  The
> > issue is that it is running on a tiny embedded server (see
> > http://www.boa.org) running php3lite, a reduced version of php for just
> > such a system.  I opened a browser three days ago, started the script,
> > and then closed the browser.  If I need to kill the process I am not
> > sure how to do it other than restarting the server although I can
> > probably end it with [kill -1 php] in ssh.  Since these are not normal
> > circumstances, I was curious if there might be another way to end the
> > process.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:09, CHUN-YIU LAM wrote:
> > > I think what he meant to say is why the webserver did not timeout..
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > From: Adam Fields <fields at surgam.net>
> > > Reply-To: talk at nyphp.org
> > > To: NYPHP Talk <talk at nyphp.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] loop
> > > Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:35:24 -0500
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> > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> > >  > I am currently using a script to move a webcam at certain time
>
> intervals.
>
> > >   The
> > >
> > >  > script never times out and uses the following to run indefinitely:
> > >  >
> > >  > for (;;) {
> > >  > [camera instuctions]
> > >  > }
> > >  >
> > >  > Anyone know the principal behind this snippet and why it works?  I
>
> have
>
> > > not
> > >
> > >  > been able to find any information on the subject.
> > >
> > > This is clearly documented in the online manual:
> > >
> > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.for.php
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Adam
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Adam Fields, Managing Partner, fields at surgam.net
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> > > delivering scalable and robust enterprise web and IT applications.
> > > http://www.adamfields.com
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