Re: How to fire off a unix command WITHOUT waiting for it to return (I want to use &)
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:30:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to fire off a unix command WITHOUT waiting for it to return (I want to use &) | ||
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:07:54 -0700, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
How can I cause PHP to fire off a unix program and NOT wait for a reply. Basically I want to use the "&" love the unix provides, but it seems that exec, passthrough, system and evenwrite simple shell script wrapper that does it for you: #!/bin/sh /bin/scan & Then call the wrapper. HTH, Curt.all wait for a return despite my putting something like exec("/bin/scan &"); or/bin/scan &*sigh*