SSE terminate the script & proc_open leaves child's running in background

Description

This code is simply a combination of Mozilla Server-Sent Events Example and PHP proc_open() Example, which make the browser receive the output of a command in real-time.

The first issue is proc_terminate() leaves children running, which is already open since 2006, but people suggested some workarounds (workarounds 1, 2, 4).

The second issue which is why I'm open this, is the PHP script get killed as soon as the SSE connection get closed, which mean kill_process($process) never reached, while in PHP 5.6 the script still alive and terminate normally. I fix it by register_shutdown_function() (workarounds 3).

<?php
    // --------------------------------------------
    set_time_limit(0);
    ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', 1);
    ini_set('max_execution_time', '0');
    date_default_timezone_set("America/Halifax");
    ob_end_clean();
    gc_enable();
    header("Content-Type: text/event-stream");
    header("Cache-Control: no-store");
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true');
    header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
    header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers: X-Events');

    // -------------------------------------------
    $process;
    $descriptorspec = array(
        0 => array("pipe", "r"),    // stdin is a pipe that the child will read from
        1 => array("pipe", "w"),    // stdout is a pipe that the child will write to
        2 => array("pipe", "w")     // stderr is a pipe that the child will write to
    );
    $env = '/home';
    $pipes;
    $process;

    // -------------------------------------------

    function kill_process() {

        global $process;

        $status = proc_get_status($process);

        if($status['running'] == true) {

            // Close all pipes that are still open
            fclose($pipes[1]); //stdout
            fclose($pipes[2]); //stderr                

            // Get the parent pid of the process we want to kill
            $ppid = $status['pid'];

            // Use ps to get all the children of this process, and kill them
            $pids = preg_split('/\s+/', `ps -o pid --no-heading --ppid $ppid`);
            foreach($pids as $pid) {

                if(is_numeric($pid)) {

                    posix_kill($pid, 9); // SIGKILL
                }
            }
        }

        // Workaround 1
        posix_kill($ppid, 9);        

        // Close The Process
        proc_close($process);

         // Workaround 2
        proc_terminate($process);
    }

    function SendEventToBrowser($event, $msg) {

        echo ("event: $msg\n".PHP_EOL);
        echo ("data: $msg\n".PHP_EOL);

        while (ob_get_level() > 0)
            ob_end_flush();

        flush();
    }

    function SendToBrowser($msg) {

        echo ("data: $msg\n".PHP_EOL);

        while (ob_get_level() > 0)
            ob_end_flush();

        flush();
    }

    // ---------------------------------------------

     // Workaround 3
    register_shutdown_function('kill_process');

     // Workaround 4 (exec)
     $process = proc_open("exec /bin/bash /home/MyScript.sh", $descriptorspec, $pipes, $env, array());

    if(is_resource($process)) {

        SendToBrowser('Shell Script Started');

        while ($s = fgets($pipes[1])) {

            SendToBrowser($s);
            
            // break the loop if the client 
            // aborted the connection
            if (connection_aborted()){

                break;
            }
        }

        kill_process($process); // Never Reached
    }

    SendToBrowser('Shell Script Closed');
?>

PHP Version

PHP 7.4.3 (cli) (built: Mar 2 2022 15:36:52) ( NTS )

Operating System

Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Non sono stati identificati file del repository né test. Inizia riproducendo la disconnessione SSE con PHP 7.4.3 su Ubuntu 20.04, poi leggi gli entry point proc_open(), proc_terminate() e register_shutdown_function() e il bug collegato relativo al processo figlio. Il lavoro è completato quando il processo figlio non rimane in esecuzione dopo la chiusura della connessione ed è presente una copertura di regressione per il ciclo di vita segnalato.