Tag: pcntl

Is there a way to signal a SIGALRM with a finer-grained delay than pcntl_alarm(int $seconds)?

pcntl_alarm(int $seconds) only has a resolution of seconds. Is there a way in PHP to signal a SIGALRM with a delay of, say, milliseconds? Maybe a posix_kill() with a delay argument? PS.: I’m aware of SwooleProcess::alarm() from the PECL extension Swoole, but I’m looking for a more bare-bones PHP solution. Answer I found one way to do it, but it

How to compile pcntl for PHP 7.4 and above?

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I am attempting to compile the pcntl extension for PHP 7.4 and PHP 8 with the following commands (from Mac): wget “https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.4.0.tar.gz” tar xvf “php-7.4.0….