Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 07/23/05 06:37

Liang ZHONG wrote:
> What is the correct way to keep the function running after I redirect an
> existing page to http client (which I want the client get immediately)
> and then immediately close the connection?

Use the execution functions to call an external script that performs the
tasks you want performed. If you execute, for example,
"/some/path/somescript &", then the exec() function will return
immediately and somescript will continue to run.

Jasper

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