#12300 [Opn->Fbk]: exec() family problems

ID: 12300 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: marv@cyberia.net.lb -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Program Execution Operating System: WinXP PHP Version: 4.3 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-06 20:00:54] pollita@php.net Try this: <?php $cmd="c:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe /c test.bat"; echo "Executing command: [$cmd]\n"; system($cmd,$value); echo "Return value is: $value\n"; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-05 06:08:28] twa@carlbro.dk Maybe this bug duplicates this one: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-26 04:12:49] stepan.rybar@taskforce.cz Yes, I have the same problem. For previous 24 hours I am trying to execute any program using exec, shell_exec, passthru... and Unable to fork or unable to execute. I have set up both IIS 5.1 and php.ini as unsecure as possible (temporary ;-) and no success. But I was successful on MS Windows ME, Apache 1.3.? and PHP 4.1.? for more than one year. So I am not sure, if it is not IIS configuration problem or problem with new directive in php.ini - cgi.something. I am running PHP 4.2.3 as a module. Stepan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-21 09:02:56] marv@cyberia.net.lb one year later :) i've switched to a WinXP system. from the people who have posted successful runs of system() and exec() on w2k and xp i thought it would work. however, it DOESN'T. i downloaded the latest dev version and tried that. and it still doesn't happen. it works fine in the command prompt (with php.exe and php-cgi.exe). but in the browser (which uses php-cgi.exe) it gives the following: Warning: system() [function.system]: Unable to fork [D:\Website\projects\testbed\test.bat] in D:\Website\projects\testbed\test.phpdev on line 6 so it doesn't hang the browser anymore but maybe that's because of xp's shoot to kill policy. i tried fiddiling with the permissions to see if its the cause. but even with the most liberal permissions it gives the same result. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-20 19:53:01] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/12300 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12300&edit=1