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qlimix/process-unix
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Running sync long running processes

1.0.1(5y ago)07MITPHPPHP >7.4

Since Jun 22Pushed 1y agoCompare

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Process-unix
============

[](#process-unix)

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Unix implementation of the process control interfaces.

Install
-------

[](#install)

Using Composer:

```
$ composer require qlimix/process-unix

```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

To run all unit tests locally with PHPUnit:

```
$ vendor/bin/phpunit

```

Quality
-------

[](#quality)

To ensure code quality run grumphp which will run all tools:

```
$ vendor/bin/grumphp run

```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance36

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~203 days

Total

4

Last Release

1907d ago

Major Versions

0.1.0 → v1.x-dev2020-11-14

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=7.2

v1.x-devPHP >7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b36bc6962dc262278406bb00b9ac60440cfd603e60adf7c348a4b61c1eef215f?d=identicon)[qlimix](/maintainers/qlimix)

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Top Contributors

[![frank-q](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44945172?v=4)](https://github.com/frank-q "frank-q (31 commits)")

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Tags

processsynclongrunning

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