16.2.1 Error handling: posix_get_last_error() and posix_strerror()This is NOT the latest copy of this book; click here for the latest version.
string posix_get_last_error ( void )
int posix_strerror ( string error_number)
As I mentioned already, the PHP POSIX functions are really just calls to the standard C POSIX functions, and this has the downside of making them very hard to debug. Two functions alleviate this problem: posix_get_last_error() and posix_strerror(), which grab the last error number and turn that error number into a string respectively. So, if you want to check for an error when calling posix_kill(), you'd use code like this:
<?php
posix_kill(293811, SIGKILL);
$errno = posix_get_last_error();
if ($errno) {
echo "Error encountered: ", posix_strerror($errno), "\n";
} else {
echo "No errors encountered.\n";
}
?>
In that script, the process ID 293811 is just made up, which is the point: posix_kill() will probably fail because the PID doesn't exist. Or, if it does exist, it might not belong to you, and so also probably will not be killed - unless you're root, of course!
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