RE: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

> On some machines, on some OSes, in some configurations, with some > commands, tacking "&" onto the end of what you exec, will sometimes > "work"... Sadly, in even Linux, this will not work. PHP blocks on the call. I've even tried to call out to a shell script which in turn uses & to call a command. Nope. I wish PHP would add threading. We write enterprise level products with PHP, and we end up using DBUS and letting Ruby do all the "real work".