Re: Launching a file properly

Chris Aitken writes: > I have a bit of a problem. > > I am needing to launch a program from a php script. This I can do with the > following code > > $fp = popen("/usr/local/bin/minicom -stuff", "w+"); > pclose($fp); > > Now Minicom launches properly, contacts the serial port and does everything > properly, but then gets caught up in a major loop. If I run top, it shows > minicom just chewing up the CPU until I kill it off. > > Am I missing something, or doing something wrong. > > If I run the command from the command line, it runs perfectly, does its > deed and exits minicom (its all in my minicom script), but doing it from > the above code still allows it to do its deed, but wont kill off minicom > once its finished and it just loops into oblivion. > > > Any assistance would be muchly appreciated. > > > Thanks > > > Chris Are you really needing to write to minicom's stdin? If you don't really *need* popen() here, what happens when you use exec(), system(), or backticks? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+