Re: run a process in background on Windows
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:50:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: run a process in background on Windows | ||
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Jim Lucas wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 05:54 AM, Jan Vávra wrote:
>> I think It would be nice to have a function exec_in_background(.) that does it
>> directly in the php core.
>
> PCNTL [1] will allow you to fork a process. It isn't usually included in the
> standard build of PHP.
>
> 1) http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcntl.php
However, PCNTL is not available on Windows at all.
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Christoph M. Becker