Re: [development] How to control background processes from inside Drupal?

I don't have any experience in this realm, but you might look at http://drupal.org/project/daemon or http://drupal.org/project/daemoncli On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Leo Burd <leob@media.mit.edu> wrote:

Hello there,

Is there any way to start/stop background processes from inside Drupal?

I'm currently writing a module that has to continuously monitor  a socket connection for events coming from a remote server.  I thought about using hook_cron(), but I'm afraid that the infinite (or continuous) loop of my event handler would tie out other modules that use hook_cron().  Another alternative would be to use batch api, but do batch processes run in the background?

Thanks in advance,

Leo