#14897 [Com]: "unable to fork" - cause & solution (well, at least for me)

ID: 14897 Comment by: h.siedler@liebl.at Reported By: louis@steelbytes.com Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Program Execution Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: under iis5.0 and php4.0.6 there's always the message "unable to fork" by using the exec() command.The same with system() command. Is there someway that works? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-16 01:00:02] php-bugs@lists.php.net No feedback was provided for this bug for over 2 weeks, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-31 14:51:10] iliaa@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-21 07:16:43] louis@steelbytes.com re enable access to cmd.exe for php: if you are using IIS, then PHP will be run using the IWAM_<machinename> account. so you would have to set the right for cmd.exe to include this account. if you are using a different web server, then I have no idea what account would need access to cmd.exe re stopping php from prepending "cmd /c ": not that I know of, and hence the bug report that I posted requesting the developers changing it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-21 06:32:42] davidfelton@codemasters.com Is there a way to enable access to cmd.exe so that it is only available to php.exe? Or a way of stopping php prepending "cmd.exe /c " in front of any calls to exec? thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-17 19:40:26] louis@steelbytes.com this is a suggestion to the developers to do, because the only way for a script writer to solve this is to enabled access to cmd.exe which many would perfer to not have to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/14897 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14897&edit=1