Posted by Andy Jeffries on 04/28/06 11:08

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:07:13 +0000, Andy Jeffries wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:33:08 -0700, Sjoerd wrote:
>>> exec("/var/www/html/services/ftp.sh $zipfile 2>&1 &", $output2,
>>> $status);
>> Why doesn't this work?
>
> Because the stdout handle will still point to the handle the Apache/PHP
> module is listening/blocking for input on.
>
> I posted more about this in my recent thread:

Sorry, wrong thread in the earlier message, I meant this one:

Daemonising to continue asynchronously
http://nextgen.url123.com/asyncphp
(Google groups, blah, blah).

Cheers,


Andy


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