<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >proc_close</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Program Execution functions" HREF="ref.exec.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="passthru" HREF="function.passthru.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="proc_open" HREF="function.proc-open.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.passthru.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.proc-open.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.proc-close" ></A >proc_close</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN78839" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)</P >proc_close -- Close a process opened by proc_open and return the exit code of that process. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN78842" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >proc_close</B > ( resource process)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >proc_close()</B > is similar to <A HREF="function.pclose.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pclose()</B ></A > except that it only works on processes opened by <A HREF="function.proc-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >proc_open()</B ></A >. <B CLASS="function" >proc_close()</B > waits for the process to terminate, and returns it's exit code. If you have open pipes to that process, you should <A HREF="function.fclose.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fclose()</B ></A > them prior to calling this function in order to avoid a deadlock - the child process may not be able to exit while the pipes are open. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.passthru.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.proc-open.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >passthru</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.exec.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >proc_open</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >