Re: Documenting solution for the problem of background scripts that make PHP hang

Manuel Lemos wrote: > Once in a while there is somebody that ask how to run a shell command in > background from without making PHP hang under UNIX. The problem is about > pclose() that hangs until all processes started from the script release the > output handle that was returned to PHP by popen(). > > While this is the correct behavious and so is not a bug, I thought it would > be useful to document it in the official manual. It seems that Adding > annotations to the manual from the site is not working yet. So, I wonder > what is the way to go to have this problem documented in the appropriate > section of the PHP manual. Annotations are at http://php.chek.com/manual/. > I looked in the news server at news.php.net and there was a php.doc group > but it seems to be empty. I thought there was a PHP documentation mailing > list somewhere but I can't find it. The phpdoc mailing list is now not subscribeable throu support.php, because we have seen so many support questions. -Egon -- SIX Offene Systeme GmbH · Stuttgart - Berlin - New York Sielminger Straße 63 · D-70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Fon +49 711 9909164 · Fax +49 711 9909199 http://www.six.de PHP-Stand auf Europas grösster Linux-Messe: 'LinuxTag 2000' weitere Infos @ http://www.dynamic-webpages.de/