Bug #81663 [Com]: PHP calls shell_exec. The process it starts ends but php does not continue from

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81663&edit=1 ID: 81663 Comment by: arian_a at hotmail dot se Reported by: arian_a at hotmail dot se Summary: PHP calls shell_exec. The process it starts ends but php does not continue from Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Program Execution Operating System: win 10 PHP Version: 8.0.13 Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I wrote wrong at the beginning of my last comment. This is how it should be instead: test1, test2 and test3.html, they all make a request onload to monitor.php (NOT to insert.php) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-12-13 23:10:56] arian_a at hotmail dot se "The problem is your code, since you first modify the file(s), and then execute pathmonitor.exe which waits possibly indefinitely for modifications" This is not true. test1, test2 and test3.html, they all make a request onload to insert.php which starts pathmonitor.exe. At this point pathmonitor.exe is waiting for something to happen. Then after that use "write-buttons.html" to write in the folders. This is what the program should do, no matter which buttons you press, two folders gets a write (One folder is one of the options in "write-buttons.html", the other folder is folder1). When the write happens the ajax request is returned and new request is sent back to start a new wait. It works in the beginning, but then after some "button pressing", one of the two ajax requests that should return doesn't return. So I still belive it's a bugg, don't you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-11-29 12:18:24] cmb@php.net I don't see a bug in PHP here. The problem is your code, since you first modify the file(s), and then execute pathmonitor.exe which waits possibly indefinitely for modifications. Additionally, you should not pass the name of a file to pathmonitor.exe, but rather its directory: shell_exec("pathmonitor.exe " . dirname($_GET['path'])); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-11-26 23:34:46] arian_a at hotmail dot se Description: ------------ This problem is difficult to explain with text only. So therefore I have combined text and images to be able to explain it better. The explanations can be found in the links below. (The links show you how to reproduce the bugg.) The links should be read in the same order as they appear. 1. https://i.ibb.co/dj10yqP/1eng.png 2. https://i.ibb.co/1zwLwQ6/2eng.png 3. https://i.ibb.co/pxY5GN9/3eng.png 4. https://i.ibb.co/ggpZXKk/4-eng.png Here is all the files used in the project. Nothing is excluded https://github.com/somedudeokey/monitor/archive/refs/heads/main.zip Pathmonitor.exe was created with pathmonitor.cpp. If you do not trust the .exe file, you can create the same .exe by using the .cpp file (pathmonitor.cpp) Take care ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81663&edit=1