<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Kills a process opened by proc_open</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.proc-open.html">proc_open</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.shell-exec.html">shell_exec</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.exec.html">Program execution Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.proc-terminate" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">proc_terminate</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">proc_terminate</span> — <span class="dc-title">Kills a process opened by proc_open</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.proc-terminate-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>proc_terminate</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$process</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$signal</code><span class="initializer"> = 15</span></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Signals a <em><code class="parameter">process</code></em> (created using <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-open.html" class="function">proc_open()</a></span>) that it should terminate. <span class="function"><strong>proc_terminate()</strong></span> returns immediately and does not wait for the process to terminate. </p> <p class="para"> <span class="function"><strong>proc_terminate()</strong></span> allows you terminate the process and continue with other tasks. You may poll the process (to see if it has stopped yet) by using the <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-get-status.html" class="function">proc_get_status()</a></span> function. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.proc-terminate-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">process</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-open.html" class="function">proc_open()</a></span> <span class="type"><a href="language.types.resource.html" class="type resource">resource</a></span> that will be closed. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">signal</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> This optional parameter is only useful on <acronym title="Portable Operating System Interface">POSIX</acronym> operating systems; you may specify a signal to send to the process using the <em>kill(2)</em> system call. The default is <em>SIGTERM</em>. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.proc-terminate-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the termination status of the process that was run. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.proc-terminate-changelog"> <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3> <p class="para"> <table class="doctable informaltable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="tbody"> <tr> <td>5.2.2</td> <td> Previous versions used to destroy the given process <em><code class="parameter">resource</code></em>. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.proc-terminate-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-open.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">proc_open()</a> - Execute a command and open file pointers for input/output</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-close.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">proc_close()</a> - Close a process opened by proc_open and return the exit code of that process</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.proc-get-status.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">proc_get_status()</a> - Get information about a process opened by proc_open</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.proc-open.html">proc_open</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.shell-exec.html">shell_exec</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.exec.html">Program execution Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>