Re: 4.0.4

> > AG>> to use that ugly code from the MSDN which doesn't seem to work > > AG>> well or at least Stas didn't get it to work in the little time > > AG>> he had to mess around with it. > > > > I tried, but since Microsoft code wasn't exactly doing what I needed and > > debugging was very hard because every time I did something wrong IIS got > > stuck and required full reboot - it just took too much time and I had to > > drop it for the lack of time. Maybe more skilled Windows developer could > > do it, I'm just not enough familiar with Windows guts to do this > > effectively (and neither I wish to become familiar, for the record :) > > > > I don't mean to pry here, but I found two ways of doing popen() on > Microsoft's website. I saw the steaming pile of elephant dung that uses > CreateChildProcess() and CreatePipe(), but I also saw that the VC++ > 6.0 runtime library has another function, _popen(), that claims to do > almost the same thing. Are these the same thing and/or do they have the > same results? CreateProcess() or CreateProcessAsUser() will be our friend, i'll have a look at that after 4.0.4. greetings daniel /*-- daniel beulshausen - daniel@php4win.de using php on windows? http://www.php4win.de