Posted by Aaron Saray on 09/09/07 14:05

On Sep 8, 11:37 am, melma...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a big problem with shell commands execution via PHP.
> I have written a very short PHP script ilustrating the problem:
>
> <?php
>
> for($i=0;$i<1000;$i++)
> {
> exec("test.bat");
>
> }
>
> ?>
>
> test.bat is just an empty file.
>
> This script causes about 10 MB memory leak. It can be observed
> by usage of performance system monitor. This problems occurs in
> all available enviroments:
> - IIS Webserver.
> - Apache webserver
> - PHP command line interpreter
>
> Memory leak is observable only on Windows platform
> (tested on Windows XP). On Linux everything works OK.
>
> Does someone know how to solve this problem? Any help appreciated
>
> Best regards
> Melmack

Does it leak memory for every type of system call (like passthru) or
just for exec() ?

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