Re: Background processing / forking

Hi Natasha, Well the probably easiest shitty way to do it is: exec("theprogram 1> /some/file 2>&1 &"); would exec()ute theprogram and will put it's output in /some/file and stderr's output also in the /some/file, and & at last signifies the backgroundness of the program. however as you mentioned C, the better way could fork it in C, and since i don't wanna get offtopic i won't mention it here. -:) HTH --- Natasha <natashaklej@yahoo.com> wrote: > hey, > > i wanted to know if there's a fork function in php, > cause i don't see it in the manual. > > I basically wanna call a C program from PHP. > > Now the problem is that the C program will be > running > for longs periods like maybe half or even an hour. > So > i would basically want to just execute the program > and > return control to the script immediately so that the > c > program continues it's work. > > it's easy with forking. but i dont see it in php. > > thx. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== To find out more about me : http://www.geocities.com/mimodit My bookmarks are available @ http://mukul.free.fr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/