Re: Forking external binaries

> We have a web application that forks off an external program to inject > an email in the outgoing queue. At busy periods this external program > (qmail-inject) can take a little while to return. I'm currently using > popen() to spawn the qmail-inject binary. > > Is there a way to spawn the external binary but not wait for it to > return. I'd be happy to ignore any return value if the tradeoff was a > fast return. If you call it via exec(), you can append an ampersan to detach the controlling terminal: exec("/path/to/qmail-inject -args &"); Wish php had fork() in a non-experimental context. :\ --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html