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A software daemon is a background process that runs continuously on a system, often to perform tasks or provide services without direct user interaction. This repository provides a simple API to create and manage running processes, and allows you to bundle processes into pools to be interacted with as a single unit.

Example usage:

<?php
use Gt\Daemon\Process;
use Gt\Daemon\Pool;

// Create three long-running processes:
$pingProcess = new Process("ping google.com");
$infiniteProcess = new Process("while true; do echo 'background...'; sleep 3; done");
$dateProcess = new Process("while true; do echo $(date -d now); sleep 2; done");

// Add all three processes to a pool:
$pool = new Pool();
$pool->add("Ping", $pingProcess);
$pool->add("Loop", $infiniteProcess);
$pool->add("Date", $dateProcess);

// Start the execution of all processes:
$pool->exec();

// While processes are running, write their output to the terminal:
do {
	echo $pool->read();
	// Sleep to avoid hogging the CPU.
	sleep(1);
}
while($pool->numRunning() > 0);

Outputs something similar to:

[Ping] PING google.com (172.217.169.78) 56(84) bytes of data.
[Ping] 64 bytes from lhr48s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.169.78): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=8.78 ms
[Loop] background...
[Date] Mon 19 Aug 09:58:54 BST 2019
[Ping] 64 bytes from lhr48s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.169.78): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=8.75 ms
[Ping] 64 bytes from lhr48s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.169.78): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=8.75 ms
[Date] Mon 19 Aug 09:58:56 BST 2019
[Ping] 64 bytes from lhr48s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.169.78): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=8.75 ms
[Loop] background...
[Ping] 64 bytes from lhr48s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.169.78): icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=8.80 ms
[Date] Mon 19 Aug 09:58:58 BST 2019